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Mindful Parenting for Space Camp
Christina Smith Shares How Agile Methods And Frequent Feedback Give Her Children The Tools They Need To Succeed In this episode Christina Smith, a certified scrum master, shares how she started practicing agile and mindful parenting. Like most parents, Christina wants her children to lead happy and fulfilling lives, both now and when they are…
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Enjoy.com Crashes Into Reality, Bye Bye $500 Million
Enjoy.com turned $500M of invested capital and goodwill into nothing. This was Johnson’s second attempt as a CEO. What did he learn from that failure? How did it shape his new company?
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Business on Fire 2: Could Business Mindfulness have Saved JCPenney?
In this “organizational mindfulness” episode, we define and use the concept to analyze companies. Mindful businesses have high resiliency and avoid catastrophic risks.
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Business on Fire Part I: JCPenney and Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson succeeded wildly in redesigning Target stores and building Apple Stores, but crashed and burned JCPenney and Enjoy.com
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Want lasting change? Label emotions
If we want lasting change, we have to understand all the forces around us, and emotions may be our strongest opponent. When forced to change, people feel fear, rage, anxiety, and other emotions.
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Hand to Mouth: Noticing and Labeling
A Mindful Agility podcast listener, Heather Schenck, tried a technique we demonstrated in a previous episode, with her four-year-old. Her husband was doubtful.
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You Lost Your Keys? Again?!
Matt moved in with his girlfriend, and losing his keys kept making them late. Can mindful agility help? Use weekly sprints, measuring outcomes, retrospectives in the context of home life.
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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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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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Iterations for Ukraine
Russia invaded Ukraine. Rob Coles used agile “iterations for Ukraine” to funnel donations where needed.