Duena Blomstrom, Contributor

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The Future Of Work Is Wide Open

This future is not theoretical or an imagination exercise but the beginning of reality, we shouldn’t discuss it in a vacuum as an intellectual work-out but in a results-driven, every day sleeves-rolled mindset and see it for the holistic chance for Fir…

Agile Starts At The Top

Chances are, no organization will ever become truly successful if it doesn’t have a leadership team that is fully Agile themselves and that, good leaders of the future are of a DevOps mindset and genuinely Agile at heart.

Why A Culture Of “Us Vs. Them” Is Deadly

In a fight where “Us” is the “Versus Silos” and “Them” is the “Safe, Happy and Open Agile Team” – which one are you willing to bet the survival of your company on?

Technology Doesn’t Matter. Here’s What Does.

Not every company learned the same lessons, not everyone lives in a DevOps cultural paradise of psychologically safe teams and Agile deliveries driven by human centered design hypothesis that is ever questioned and improved but those that do, are laugh…

It’s Not About What You Know. Soft Skills Are Hard

Cultivating and reinforcing what makes us human is the ticket and in the process, we must stop referring to those skills and attributes as “soft” as they are the only thing that’s -still- hard for the competition.

It’s Not About What You Know. Soft Skills Are Hard

Cultivating and reinforcing what makes us human is the ticket and in the process, we must stop referring to those skills and attributes as “soft” as they are the only thing that’s -still- hard for the competition.

Are Your Humans “Resources” Or “Capital”?

In time, the gap between hopeful expectation about their role and the ability to change the world versus the harsh, stifling reality of the corporate environment, sees people either give up and leave or more likely and arguably even worse, give up and …