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Noah Rasheta: Fewer Expectations, More Success
Our stories give us a “narrative identity,” a shorthand self, which gives us focus while the stories make sense. When we release our attachment to our stories, we create freedom. Noah Rasheta joins us to discuss how to achieve and stay happy.
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20220426 Newsletter
Dan Greening here. I’m resurrecting this newsletter after a few years working as an Engineering and Product VP. I retired for a minute during COVID-19, content with my savings. I love exploring agility and helping friends succeed, so my retirement didn’t last long. You may have gotten on this email list from attending one of…
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Agile Actions
Agile Actions: To rapidly deliver more value, we Explore, Strengthen, Minimize, Take Responsibility, Order, Focus, Assess, Deliver, Experiment, Iterate, Habituate, and Teach mindful agility.
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Stories, Pivots, and Driving a School Bus
When we choose ambitious goals, we’re going to create stories about them. But nothing lasts forever: our jobs, our achievements, our friends, our relationships… or our stories. If we attach our identities to ephemeral stories (and aren’t all our stories ephemeral?), we will suffer. Noah Rasheta, the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast and author…
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Life Crafting Dan Greening
Life Crafting can help us envision an ambitious future, and plan steps that will take us there. Here’s a life crafting example for Dan Greening.
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Agile Five Whys: How it Works
Agile transformation efforts address one focus problem: We did not produce value fast enough. The Agile Five Whys technique helps advocates identify dysfunctions more rapidly and introduce the most productive practices first.
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Four Noble Truths of Agile
Buddhism and Agile each offer benefits to the ambitious. Buddhist practices help people examine and respond to life’s challenges thoughtfully. Agile practices optimize work to achieve goals faster. Buddhists seek to reduce suffering for themselves and others, an ambitious vision that would benefit from agility. Mindful agility combines these two philosophies for better, faster results.…
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Iterations for Ukraine
Russia invaded Ukraine. Rob Coles used agile “iterations for Ukraine” to funnel donations where needed.
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Goals and Compassion
Our goals can cause conflict with family and friends, and colleagues, customers and bosses. With compassion and iteration, we can succeed.
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Goals and Reactivity
Improvement is hard enough, whether we’re trying to fix a Fortune 100 company or quit smoking. Our reactivity can create unrealistic expectations and then encourage others to dictate our futures. Reactivity tells us to give up when our first attempts fall short. It tells us to feel guilty, which can sideline us further.