Sarika Kharbanda is the newest recipient of our Storyteller badge! Learn how she applied ideas from Lean Change to break down silos between the business and IT departments where she found herself working as a program manager.  Watch Her Story on LCM TV Highlights New organization, new colleagues, new portfolio of products! I am all set to begin my work. I start to collect insights about the different products in my portfolio via one-to-one interviews, Force field analysis, Retrospectives and other informal cafe conversations. Some Key Perspectives as insights that I gather from dif ..read more

Some of you know the story of Lean Change Management (LCMA), but here’s a quick refresher. The ideas started percolating around 2008. I spoke at a few conferences from 2010-2012, discussing some of the ideas, and then I published a video series on Pearson Live Lessons and Safari Books. Finally, the first version of the book came out in 2012, chapter by chapter on Leanpub. Jurgen Appelo and Vasco Duarte started an experiment called Happy Melly Express (HME). HME was designed to be a middle ground between big publishers and self-publishing. Jurgen became my writing coach, tested out the M30 Fee ..read more

You may have heard this story before. It was TWENTY years ago, and my startup was acquired by a company run by serial entrepreneurs who bought, grew and sold companies. I worked as a developer, musician (making ringtones for cell phones), graphic designer (making images for cell phones), project manager, client manager for Much Music, and many other brands. If you’ve ever worked for an early-stage startup, you’ll understand that your email signature file changes depending on who you’re emailing. As we grew, my focus shifted to all the things involved with running an online store, more or less ..read more

Over the years, I’ve talked to a handful of business advisors, personal coaches, peers and entrepreneurs because when you’re a solopreneur, it’s hard to bounce ideas off yourself! The interesting thing about those conversations is most of those folks seemed to be clinging to an archaic view of what a business is supposed to be. They would always ask me: What’s your vision? Where’s your mission statement? What’s your roadmap for the future? Where’s your hiring strategy? What’s your revenue strategy? Blech. Businesses become bureaucratic nightmares because they’re engineered that way. I remember ..read more

The Inner Game of Change Podcast I was recently interviewed by  Ali Juma of The Inner Game of Change podcast. Ali is an inherently curious change management and communication specialist with over 20 years in operational leadership and change practice.  About this episode Welcome to the Inner Game of Change Podcast Where we focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change effectively. Our guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable change adoption including communication, leadership, training, change practice, process design, change capability an ..read more

Thank you for attending the M30 Forward Summit! We were happy to sponsor this years event and pleased to give you a discount on our self-study training course. Enter the code ‘forwardsummit’ to receive your discount! Learn more about the 5 Universals of Change ..read more

Today is the first day of school, and while it’s usually a time for parents to crack open a bottle of wine in celebration, today, we’re cracking open a bottle of wine because they’ll only be in classes for about 5 hours a week. I’ve received twenty-one emails since late August when the back-to-school plan was announced. Many are multiple pages long, and that doesn’t include the messages sent directly to our kid’s school email addresses. Today you can fully expect parents to make #fireSomeone trending on twitter because little Porter was confused about which classroom to go to, promp ..read more

Eight years ago, in 2012, I went to the first Lean Startup Machine event in Toronto where our team won first prize by validating our idea and selling our prototype for $50. At the time, I was working as a product owner, and my company was looking to be the first to offer iPad applications within investor relations. Our team from LSM Toronto, 2012 A few years before that, we had spent a bunch of time and loot building essentially what you could call “google docs for IR” and couldn’t make a success out of it. I still maintain it was a great product, well ahead of its time, as it was an app th ..read more

LCMA Lean Coffee #5 This week I chat with Dawna Jones and Colin Mulholland about this being the perfect time to return to humanity. That means a shift towards purpose over profit, a return to community values, and this being a trigger point for generational change. Show notes and links Dawna: twitter | website Colin: Linked In 6:40 – sustainability 8:00 – purpose over profit 11:00 – humans are inspired when working on something way bigger than us 13:00 – artificial boundaries between countries…how do we co-create change beyond borders 14:30 – responsive government 17:00 – the art of the pos ..read more

LCMA Lean Coffee #4 Will the workforce become more humane? Will we move from “so how’s the weather?” to meaningful conversations? Show notes and links Lean Coffee Table Zoom running live and recorded tutorials Core Protocols – check-in’s, thumb voting and more   ..read more