Why and How to Challenge Agile Leanwashing

The agile community is full of drive and new ideas. This is what I’ve liked for the last 10 years … More

Agile Culture and the Myths of the NO Organization

Since I joined a start-up in 2004, I have been a very active practitionner and zealot of agile culture and … More

My Digital Story : How online communities helped me survive professionally after 9/11

Everyone has a digital story, a story about how digital has somehow transformed her. Here’s mine. I’ve partially told it … More

What have you done today to fight disengagement in your organization ?

The employee disengagement topic has been all the rage for the last few years. It has become the new major … More

What playing in a rock band taught me about working in creative collaborative environments

Just like football, I love music and I always will. I have been lucky enough to listen to it ever … More

Lean IT Summit 2014 : performance and people

The Lean IT summit 2014 happened earlier this month and as usual it has been inspiring and fun. Inspiring as … More

The Lean Scale-up

Startups have been all the craze for the last 15 years or so and the two bubbles : 1.0 (dot … More

The (Validated) Knowledge Economy

Peter Drucker coined the term Knowledge Economy some time ago. For one of the main business thinkers of the XXth … More

Sunday Quote – Cowen, McAfee and Brynjolfsson

We are having more fun, in part because of the internet. We also are having more cheap fun. But we … More

Sunday Quote : #LeadWithRespect

“In so many places I’ve worked at in the past, people looked at the future with fear and the past … More

The Self Aware Organization

(Picture by Spencer Tunick) This is yet another topic that has been running in the background of #hypertextual for a … More

Sunday Quote : John Medina

“Using visual support is also a more efficient way to glue information to a neuron, there may be strong reasons … More

Sunday Quote : Chip and Dan Heath

In 1944 George Loewenstein, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, provided the most comprehensive account of situational interest. It … More