HeyJaredLeader of the Chocolate Guild
My purpose is to teach and to learn, to grow as a person and to support others who want the same. I have a software development background with a strong interest in people, intercultural contacts and the bigger picture.
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If you want to get stuff done, project management is far from enough (opens the original)
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wrote a post about “getting shit done” and how this has been lost within the Agile (Coaching) space. He also wrote that Project Managers are known for this and that therefore, Agile Coaches should become more like them. That rubbed me somehow the wrong way, and even though I commented on the post, it was clear to me that I need to write my own article about it.First things first - where do I stand? <a href="https://djkunar.substack.com/p/makin
How to poison the well of personal development (opens the original)
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Why do people not engage in or even actively resist well-meant opportunities for their own development and improvements of the workplace? I have encountered colleagues who were leading those activities and who were puzzled about the reactions they got. They believed in the thing they were doing. It was an honest offer!As I wrote before: People are smart, organizations are not. Had they said it explicitly to the person wondering, the view of the employees could have been summarized as: “You might
Reverse Engineering predictions about AI automating jobs away (opens the original)
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“Will AI replace my job?” is a hot topic in the already overheated discussion bubble about Artificial Intelligence. As Cory Doctorow pointed out, in the end it does not matter whether it is actually possible but whether your management believes it is. Companies invest huge amounts of money into ideas that do not work, silently abandoning all efforts only years - and probably several rounds of executives - later.What I find interesting is that the AI automation predictions are telling less about
Problems and challenges are not the same (opens the original)
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I can be nitpicky when it comes to language use. As I have written before, I am allergic to attempts to diffuse meaning by using unclear or confusing wording, be it intentional or not. Today I want to treat a long-time example for mixing two thing together that might overlap but are not the same.“There are no problems, only challenges!” I have heard this at least 20 years ago. Unfortunately, my experience was that under the hood of a “positive” messaging, the audience was blamed for a “negative”
Re-framing reframing (opens the original)
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Some concepts follow the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule: With 20% of the effort you get 80% of the value. In this case, most of the time it does not make sense to go beyond 20% of attention - you grab what you can and move on. The world is messy anyways, so aiming at perfection would be pointless.This is great for consultants and trainers: The basics can be copy/pasted easily, and you do not need to be an expert to teach them. It is hard for someone else to hold you accountable,
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