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Learn How Difficult Conversations Unlock Successful Digital, Agile, Devops and Lean Transformations

Empathy & Compassion in Practice

Empathy & Compassion in Practice

There are over 100 words for feelings, from affectionate to yearning, but it’s likely you only use a few at work, if at all.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing

Empathetic listening works for intervening with addicts and schizophrenics, why don't you try it in conflicts over product features or customer deadlines?

Software Isn't Dead

Software Isn't Dead

Software has become commoditised, but that doesn't mean there's a race to the bottom. An accessible foundation means what you build on top can be much more ornate.

Commercial and Technical Debt

Commercial and Technical Debt

When your product is mispriced, your engineering investment is out of whack too! Learn how you can build product plans that scale, with guest Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt.

Price Your Customer, Not Your Product

Price Your Customer, Not Your Product

If you have one product per customer and aren't charging a princely sum, you're not pricing your customers right. This episode with special guest Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt.

Vagueness is Opportunity

Vagueness is Opportunity

Vague instructions from the Board are the norm and a great opportunity. There's no recipe that gets the right answers to executive problems!

Be Your Own Devil's Advocate

Be Your Own Devil's Advocate

You can be your own "devil's advocate" to boost the quality of what you produce, listen to learn how and why to be self-critical.

Unselling Your Software

Unselling Your Software

Be curious, learn what the market really needs, jettison "products" holding you back, and keep the right customers delighted!

Marking to Market for Software

Marking to Market for Software

Listen to find out why you should aim to bring new software to the market every day and how not to be Silicon Valley Bank!

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