Even today, most organizations struggle with becoming “more agile.” Paradoxically, the way people often manage makes Good Agile less…
What Agile taught us about the effective leadership of knowledge-worker organizations
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The Little Ice Age started in the 14th century and lasted for hundreds of years. Its effects were profound. Estimates are 30% or more of…
Does having an account person or project manager make for better information to the team? Or a better relationship?
Peter Drucker is famous for pointing out how much better managers could manage if they only used numbers. His message to you: “…if you…
We reached our 100th agency transformation milestone a month or so ago, and I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what we have…
Agile, real Agile, the stuff of legends, can be used in a marketing environment, and when done well, it changes the game of marketing…
Feel like your business is borderline crazy, with people flying back and forth, priorities changing, work never done well enough, and…
Part of what's so enticing about the agency business is its inherent mayhem.
Chaos sounds bad, but for agencies it's unavoidable, even essential. How we deal with it largely determines how strong the agency is. Chaos comes because each assignment is different, demands come in…
The legendary agencies of our industry are looking increasingly long in the tooth. That’s because we’re entering a new economic age, which…
