Innovative Business Leadership
JT is an Innovative Business Leader, creative thinker, public speaker, & management business consultant in the software space. A US Navy vet, he is also an avid motorcyclist, and enjoys turning others into heroes.
Simply having constraints can improve your creativity, challenge you to do your best. In the case of an automatic camera, removing the automation serves to sharpen your focus on getting the picture right.
What constraints do you set before yourself? Which constraints in your life, perhaps placed there with intent, make your life more colorful, more rewarding as a result?
“The Innovative Team,” studies the challenges limiting teams’ ability to be as creative, as innovative, as they truly can be.
Perhaps foremost a book on communication, it is one that will remain on my shelf for a future re-read when facing team creativity challenges in the future.
‘Agile’ is essentially a modern day metaphor for Communication.
Arbitrarily set dates lead to all manner of disaster: destroyed morale, missed delivery dates, being massively over budget, and/or delivering crappy software–even if you’re practice Agile.
For the benefit of my regular readers I wanted to share why things were a bit quiet of late. The past couple weeks were spent preparing for a series of meetings in Denver, Colorado. Overall, the meetings were very productive and the trip worthwhile. In some of my spare time, I took some pictures in [...]
When was the last time you felt uncomfortable? Not because you bum itched. Uncomfortable because of a new change at work or you’re being asked to think differently than you have before.
Many of us have areas in our lives, personally and professionally, where we are very comfortable. And, there are others, outside our areas of strength or proficiency, that make us want to skirt them, fly past wherever possible, and return right back to our comfort zones.
A few weeks ago, Geraldine Markel asked me to review her book. The focus, fighting distractions, is a war near and dear to me. I am constantly fighting it.
My review of ACTIONS, should help you determine it’s value for you, my reader. It can help uncover symptoms, consequences, as well as develop effective -actions- for dealing with them.
Moments, free of distraction, allow our minds to wander freely. The tortoise part of our brain crawls out of its shell. Unfortunately, even when we think we are thinking freely and without constraints, we are not.
My most creative moments come when there is great peace around me. If writing is the focus, my favorite times are…
This is a question you probably have asked yourself, at some point in your life. Odds are you have asked the question more than once. Once for each new job, each new profession, each new…
The question tends to be ‘professionally’ oriented when it is being asked. How long until you can consider yourself an experienced…whatever it is you are?
Its one of those little unspoken secrets. It’s probably right up there with publicly discussion your salary, an ex-spouse, or venereal disease. Very few people publicly acknowledge making use of coaching.
My expectation is that many fear it will reflect negatively upon them. If you’re a senior leader, perhaps there is fear that to admit coaching is to admit a weakness. Of course, in highly competitive environments, such as in C-suite, it might also be viewed as a competitive secret!
