Tag: Improvement

How To Treat Yourself?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘How you treat others is often a reflection of your relationship with yourself. When you find yourself irritated by colleagues, recognise that you might be as harsh on them as you are on yourself.’- Naomi Shragai

When it comes to how you treat yourself, people are watching you. They are paying attention to how you are treating yourself. They are paying attention to what you do when you are stressed out, when things are not going well, when you are with your subordinates.

They are paying attention to how you are treating the world around you. They are watching because they want to know how to deal with you.

If you don’t treat yourself as a human being, no one is going to treat you as a human being.

If you can’t spend quality time with yourself, no one is going to spend quality time with you.

If you are not comfortable with yourself, if you are not comfortable with what you see in the mirror when you wake up in the morning, then don’t expect anything special from other people.

It is that simple, but it is hard to practice. No matter what, my friend, life is too short. Don’t expect everything to be perfect before you give yourself what you want from other people.

Don’t wait for the perfect time to say, ‘I love me’ to yourself. If you don’t say it, no one will say it. If you have been saying stupid things to yourself, you must stop it. Because you deserve better. Don’t wait anymore. Stop waiting. Because you can do it for yourself.

Remember, life is not going to give you what you can give yourself.

If you want a better job, go out there and look for one for yourself. If you can’t find one, then create one.

If you want to improve your relationship with yourself, then go out there and do what makes you happy.

If you want to improve your relationship with God, then you must spend time with God.

If you want to improve your relationships with your friends, then be a good friend to yourself, then you can extend your self-love to them.

If you want to create a better world, then start with yourself. The question is, ‘Will you?’

Source

Naomi Shragai (2021). The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life: How to Thrive at Work by Leaving Your Emotional Baggage Behind

How To Do Agile Right

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Agile teams believe that customer feedback is better than management hunches for determining which innovation efforts are most important and how best to adapt them.’

‘Agile teams do not use sprints to make people work harder or faster. They use sprints to get faster feedback real customers (external and internal) about what those customers truly value.’

‘Creating an agile enterprise requires balancing and integrating operations with innovation.’

‘The best way to manage the transition to an agile enterprise is to manage it like any other agile team.’

‘Effective agile programs adapt to empirical feedback about inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and purposes. Few organizations currently have sufficient data to assess their present level of agility or their progress in improving it.’

‘Teams in an agile enterprise must make decisions quickly. Agile leadership teams can support quick decision making by being inclusive, overcommunicating, coaching, and building learning loops.’

‘Contrary to the popular myth, planning is an essential part of agile. Planning, budgeting, and reviewing must work together in frequent, adaptive cycles.’

‘Continuously revisit your talent strategy, recognizing that while you will need some new talent, most of the people in your organization are already there.’

‘Persistent, cross-functional agile teams are the best ways to improve business processes and technology. As teams gain experience and trust with operators, their development capabilities increase and adoption rates accelerate.’

‘Pace yourself to create pull and build momentum. The sequenced plan needs to include all the elements of the operating model- accountabilities and decision rights, management system, leadership and culture, talent practices, and the like.’

Source

Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez (2020). Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos