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"We believe that you do need to get together to build social bonds. Our belief, though, is that you don’t need to get together every single day to sit next to each other on a Zoom call in an office and commute back and forth to get that benefi…

By: Yadi Caro    Last week I wrapped up my time supporting a very important military organization, where I was tasked with introducing agility to the IT department.  I enjoyed this job a lot! I had to put into practice all of the sk…

If hearing the expression “let’s have a meeting” makes you cringe, you are not alone. I do love meetings though, but I love the GOOD ones. The ones where everyone gets to participate and collaborate. Those rare occasions when …

 "When you think about how do we be more productive, it's really about being more present with what you're doing. Because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can you can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a l…

By: Yadi Caro   “To be successful in writing, use short sentences” - Ernest Hemingway  People tweet (or do we call it X'ed now?), write photo captions and are constantly communicating through the written word, but these mess…

I am a huge fan of agile!  Agile is an organizational approach to managing software which was conceived 23 years ago by a group of software developers as an alternative to deliver products faster and adapt to change quickly.Instead of taki…

By: Yadi Caro   Dealing with conflict between co-workers and managers costs companies about $359 billion per year or at least 3 hours a week per each worker. Bad team communications cost companies at least US12k a year.  On the other han…

By: Yadi Caro      Do you know the value you bring to your team? They hired you for a reason and after this lesson, you’ll be able to confidently recognize the strength of your skills. Conducting a self-assessment of …

By: Yadi Caro Soft skills make hard skills work. Let me explain. If you listen to my podcast and read my newsletter, I assume we have a common understanding of what soft skills are. These are defined as the skills which allow us to interact with…

By: Yadi Caro   This week I was working with my team and we had some minor conflict in terms of communications. I stated for what I thought was the 5th time what we had planned, but then my team member said 'That's not what you said earlier!'…