Maslow’s Hiearchy

Traditionally the Maslow Hierarchy is presented in the following form:

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Taking offense is always the wrong choice . . . and it is a choice! But don’t easily offend either.

Recently, a previous client reached out to me asking about how to avoid some recurring issues that their team was running into. In essence, members of the team continued to make silly but difficult to find errors that were taking much longer to fix than they should have taken. Often times, this is a symptom of a team’s immature sense of urgency to hit deadlines, close out all the stories in a given sprint, or just keep the business happy. To be clear, a sense of urgency can be an important factor in developing a high-performing team but it can also be debilitating. As a result, I’d like to provide some principles to keep in mind when facing these types of challenges.

Overcoming Trials in a World of Instant Gratification

Today during my talk I’d like to focus on how and why we need to develop the Christlike attribute of resilience and grit. To me, they are the same thing in practice so you’ll hear me use them interchangeably throughout the talk.

Is the glass half empty or half full?

The most common responses to that question are summed up with the following labels and responses: