A minute and a half on the founding of Internet Time Alliance and what works for me. Now that Element K has been acquired by SkillSoft, I wonder if this video series will ever see the light of day. Happy New Year!

“On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile Software Development Manifesto.” Source On January 6, 2001, at a mountaintop ski resort in Stoos, [...]

Best of Working Smarter Daily January 1, 2011 to December 17, 2011 Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, [...]

Isn’t this a wonderful time of the year? The weather can be a bummer, but the death of another year makes you reflect on where you’ve been and where you’re headed. Then friends, family, and emotions come out of the woodwork. Celebrate. This card I just received from my pal Eileen Clegg captures precisely what I was [...]