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The Majority and the Individual

January 8th, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Yet another statement about what happens in meetings shows itself to be something to toss away. For some reason, meetings tend to have many statements that are supposed to be proven by time and such but are nothing but folly. I have written about some of these before such as “silence means […]

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Tags: Accountability · Competence · Following · Group · Judgment · Knowledge · Management · Meetings · Synergy

I Said that Last Week, Too

January 6th, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Common thoughts foretell a general consensus. Someone tells me something. Wait, I said that last week when talking to yet another person. Wait, two independent conversations with different audiences, and the same idea is stated. There is a trend here. A consensus is forming. Perhaps great minds think alike (wouldn’t it be […]

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Tags: Communication · Ideas · Practice · Reaction · Synergy

The Power of Streaks

January 3rd, 2022 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There is something to the concept of momentum where a body in motion continues in motion. That even works with mental activity. Momentum works. Even with the mind. That doesn’t make sense, but in my experience it seems to be true. Examples: For over 700 weeks (13+ years) I have viewed the […]

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Tags: Blog · Patterns · Reading · Synergy · Time · Writing

The One-Person Silo

November 30th, 2017 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We all like to have something we can call our own. We like to work on something and say, “I did that!” We have to decide if one of us is smarter than all of us. In Agile Development, somehow the team meets and decides on a new feature or fix for […]

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Tags: Adults · Respect · Synergy · Trust · Work

The Production Crew or We Got the Band Back Together

February 16th, 2017 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips I recommend an organization for the future or work as we know it. This is the new company. It is an agile team that has worked together on many software projects. The Team has learned much on all these past projects. The Team has become high performing (it “jelled” a long time […]

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Tags: Management · People · Success · Synergy · Work

Synergy: Are You Averaging or Multiplying

June 16th, 2016 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Instead of averaging, trying multiplying to judge the effectiveness of your group. We tend to average things. I’m not sure why, but it seems to make sense. Consider a team of four people. We assign the ability of each person a number: 1.2, 1.0, 0.7, and 1.1. The average of these four […]

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Tags: Synergy