KnolShare with Dr. Dave

Bobby Cooper Jr. is the managing partner of El Cheapo Lifts

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  You

are listening to Episode #56, featuring Bobby Cooper Jr., managing partner of

El Cheapo Lifts. The

topic is “When you fall stand again”. 

Bobby Cooper Jr. is the managing

partner of El Cheapo Lifts, an equipment rental company serving the needs of

construction companies and contractors.

Bobby experienced tragedy in life and

continues to move forward with running a successful business.

Bobby said One thing I do know is that

I don’t know it all and time is so important. The time that you have here on

this planet is so important that you cannot let any of it go. It really is. I

would say a lot of my thinking is focused on managing my state. My focus is to

lead the people who work with me. I’m learning not to do everything myself but

use the combined force and power of we

versus the power of just me. I know I can’t do it alone. I’ve learned to really

trust people a lot more. It’s been difficult and very challenging.

I sat down with Bobby to learn more

about his inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes,

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The KnolShare

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If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2019 KnolShare.

Wes Kliewer is an executive at Project Insight

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  You

are listening to Episode #55, featuring Wes Kliewer, executive at Project

Insight. The

topic is “Pay it forward to those who follow”. 

Wes Kliewer is an executive at Project

Insight and understands the challenges of an up and down economy.

Developing a diverse and sustainable

customer base isn’t an easy task, but Wes contributed to the growth of his

company. As the leader of training and support, his influence to invest in

webinars that educate customers in project management techniques and agile

practices is an innovative way to engage customers.

Wes Said, When inspired by other

companies, I’ll often invest in them as well. Always for the long term.  We’ve taken inspiration from fast-growth

companies and implemented them on a smaller scale for ourselves.

I sat down with Wes to learn more

about his inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

This interview is extracted from the Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? book.  The book is available on Amazon.com as a kindle or print.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes,

Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare

with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2019 KnolShare.

James Wright is an executive and entrepreneur who owns Go Time Agile LLC

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  You are listening to Episode #54, featuring James Wright, executive and entrepreneur who owns Go Time Agile LLC. The topic is “Check the rear view mirror”. 

James Wright is an executive and

entrepreneur who owns Go Time Agile LLC. He’s an author and shares his insights

about agile marketing practices to large companies globally.

James

said, My imagination allowed me to visualize that I could do something

different than I had done and be happy doing it.

My

approach to getting back on my feet began with basic steps. They included the

following:

* Identify what jobs were possible

for me to get at my age.* Get the training to be able to get

considered for such jobs.* Give lots of prayers.* I had to continually repress the

memories and attitudes associated with high-level company positions, influence,

and income, and accept the new reality

I sat down with James to learn more

about his inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

This interview is extracted from the Elastic Minds: What are you

thinking? book.  The book is available on

Amazon.com as a kindle or print.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes,

Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare

with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2019 KnolShare.

Edmund Marquez, Tucson Business Leader with Dr. Dave

Hello and welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast.  This is your host Dr. Dave Cornelius. The KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast is hosted on GrokShare.com and streamed on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  

I want to encourage everyone to find their awesomeness, it is a choice.

Tucson’s Mayor, Jonathan Rothschild issued an official proclamation stating March 11, 2019 through March 17, 2019 is “Be Agile Week” .  We are issuing the Be Agile Week Challenge in Tucson, AZ. and in other areas of the world. Visit www.AgileOpenArizona.com to learn more.

Sometimes you hear and see someone share a story and you pause to think, I would like to learn more about that person.  I heard Edmund Marquez share his story at a Startup Tucson coffee event at Connect CoWorking and I said, Edmund Marquez is someone that I would like to learn more about.  The authenticity and transparency of his business journey and transformation story is a destination that I aspire to reach. It is great to meet a new friend in a new city and feel welcomed.

The topic is Be Agile in Tucson, AZ.  Edmund’s perspective on the city of Tucson, AZ is based on a passionate desire to see the city grow to support the needs of the citizens and compete for new business opportunities with neighboring cities.  

The Interview questions for this podcast include the following:

* Share your story about your journey as a business leader.* Dream with me for a minute.  If Rio Nuevo was to assume the attributes of “Be Agile Week”, what would you plan to accomplish?  What would you change?* What would an Agile Tucson look like to you?* Why would an agile economy be important for Tucson in your opinion?* How would that change the economic ecosystem of the city?* What is your message to the business, academic, and spiritual communities in Tucson about the “Be Agile Week”?

Agile means intentionally responding to change caused by opportunities and threats by inspecting and adapting environments.  The change is satisfied by delivering measurable outcomes that can be realized and shared.

Our strengths and weaknesses are amplified through the agile mindset and frameworks.

Agile is a practice that can be used in any industry and help people achieve awesomeness.

Edmund said, Rio Nuevo 3.0 is very, very agile.  We are very agile as compared to the City of Tucson, Pima County, and other entities that we work with.  Rio Nuevo’s investments included $30 million dollars in downtown Tucson with an additional $330 million future projects coming.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agil...

The Startup Business need Agile practices to accelerate innovation and optimize flow.

Welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast. The Agile For Humanity Tucson Meeting Webinar series provide episodes that are community conversations about lean startup, technology, agile practices, and much more.. We used the metaphor of tomatoes to describe the journey of startup businesses. Green tomatoes are new startups. Vine ripe tomatoes are mature startup companies. A Bruschetta recipe made of stewed tomatoes with garlic and basil is the startup company successfully meeting customer needs, and the rotten tomatoes are failures. This was a great discussion with several attendees from the Tucson, AZ startup community, willing to share their perspective of lean startup companies.

KnolShare with Dr. Dave is Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.

The conversation today is What’s That Startup Smell? Startup companies have an odor that can be putrid or very pleasing and delicious for consumption. Get the PDF presentation.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued

support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness

through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile

organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion

training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes,

Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare

with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Copyright 2019

KnolShare

Jill Freeman Stack

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  This is Dr. Dave your host.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  You

are listening to Episode #53, featuring Jill Freeman-Stack, principle and sole

proprietor at Jill Stack Public Relations. The topic is “You don’t know it until you do it”. 

Jill Freeman Stack is an entrepreneur

and owner of Jill Stack Public Relations, a company that enables businesses of

all sizes to share their stories with the media and markets.

Jill Stated, I find invaluable help

from professional work mentors. This includes former colleagues and clients who

are more than willing to spend time to talk to you, to cheer you up, to give

you creative ideas, to be a sounding board, even to provide client prospects.

Mentorship has been a vital part of my career.

I sat down with Jill to learn more

about her inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

This interview is extracted from the Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? book.  The book is available on Amazon.com as a kindle or print.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued

support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness

through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile

organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion

training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes,

Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare

with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Copyright 2019

KnolShare

Alicia McLain, Principle Operational Innovations

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  You are listening to Episode #52, featuring Alicia McLain, principle at Operational Innovations. The topic is “Learn Fast – Inspect and Adapt”.

Alicia McLain is an entrepreneur and executive agile coach and trainer. Her focus is the application of leadership practices that help her clients achieve success.

Alicia said, It’s important to be

selective about the work that you do, particularly if you have a vision you’re

targeting.  The result was that it helped

me to really work on my training message, how I delivered it, and how I

transferred energy to folks.

I sat down with Alicia to learn more

about her inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

This interview is extracted from the Elastic Minds: What are you

thinking? book.  The book is available on

Amazon.com as a kindle or print.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Copyright

2018 KnolShare

Zach Bonaker

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  This is your host Dr.Dave.   

KnolShare with Dr. Dave is Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.

Zach Bonaker is a “benevolent trouble-maker” based in San Diego, California, USA and has more than 10 years of experience assisting software organizations with improving working conditions and results. With experience guiding Fortune 500 companies to multi-million dollar startups, Zach builds relationships to help transform people, systems, and structures towards safe and collaborative ways of delivering high quality software. Zach is an international conference speaker, frequent podcast guest, and contributor to the global agile community. When he isn’t thinking about next-generation agile ideas, Zach can be found enjoying the sunny California weather and connecting with people all over the world.  

Imagine yourself sitting down in a director’s office with a nervous feeling. “So, about those agile metrics I asked from you…”, she says. Your stomach churns and pulse quickens. How will you show progress of transformation with agile? How will you measure improvement in teams and people? And how will you avoid the threat of harm from popular metrics like “say:do ratios” and “velocity”?Whether you’ve worked as a manager, coach, or consultant, you’ve likely experienced conflict and confusion over metrics with agile. Traditional metrics which emphasize personal productivity drive negative behaviors, encouraging us to stay busy over working together to achieve goals. Meanwhile, leaders feel dissatisfied with popular “agile metrics,” such as velocity and burn-down charts, when they fail to provide the insights desired.Listen to this lively discussion and decode the complexity of measurement with agile. Through an innovative combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, discover outcome-oriented metrics which solve organizational needs for performance, quality, and change. Clarity and prosperity between agile and metrics is not out of reach. Come find out how!

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training. We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program. Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr.

Richard Dolman, Vice-President of the US Entity for Agile42 

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes and Google Play.  You are listening to Episode #51, featuring Richard Dolman, Vice-President of theUS Entity for Agile42. The topic is “Smaller and more frequent delivery”. 

Richard is

an executive at a global agile coaching company called Agile42. He’s one of the

lead agile executive coaches and works with leaders globally to transform the

way an organization’s people work at a sustainable pace. The agile practice

uses short iterations called sprints, which are usually two weeks in duration.

Richard stated, Self-awareness is a

critical virtue or characteristic for an agile coach in my opinion. Before I

can help others embrace change or help others adapt to new ways, I need to make

sure I understand where I am and my role within the system.

I sat down with Richard to learn more

about his inspiration, challenges, discovery, and resilience.

This interview is extracted from the Elastic Minds: What are you

thinking? book.  The book is available on

Amazon.com as a kindle or print.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.  Listen on Spotify

The KnolShare

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If you have

any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast

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Copyright

2018 KnolShare

Welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  Streamed on Grokshare.com and broadcasted on iTunes Google Play, and Spotify.  You are listening to Episode Agile For Humanity #3, based on a webinar at the Agiler For Humanity Tucson Meetup. The topic is My First Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Cryptocurrency – Manage Chaos with Agile.

Launching an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).  Planning and facilitating delivery of the ICO offering to market is best satisfied with an Agile practice.  Agile practices are made for responding to change and the key constant for delivering the ICO to market is change.  If you plan to launch an ICO and would like to understand how the use of an Agile practice would help increase certainty of delivery, please join this webinar.  The work involved with launching an ICO is similar to launching an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

How Blockchain works – Consensus Algorithms exist to:

* Prevent double spending (spending the same money twice)

* Provide immutability (unchangeable and provable)

Proof of Work (PoW) or mining:

* The first blockchain consensus algorithm

* Devised by Satoshi Nakamoto for use in the Bitcoin blockchain

Proof of Stake (PoS):

* Block created by minters staking their tokens to “bet” on which blocks are valid and not by miners

Proof of Authority (PoA): Trust the Know it all

* Validated by approved accounts like an Oracle or Admin

Kanban

* Made popular by David J. Andersen.

* A way to organize the chaos that surrounds so many delivery teams by making the need for prioritization and focus clear.

* A way to uncover workflow and process problems so you may solve them in order to deliver more consistently to your client/customer/etc.

* Visualize the workflow

* Limit WIP

* Manage flow

* Make Process Policies Explicit

Lean Canvas

Proposed by Alexander Osterwalder based on his earlier work on Business Model Ontology.  Adopted by Steve Blank (“The Four Steps to the Epiphany”), and Ash Mauyra (“Running Lean”). You can use the canvas to describe, design, challenge, and pivot your business model.

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity and inclusion training.

Thank you Agile Alliance for the Webinar and Meet-up Pro account sponsorship.  Learn more about Agile Alliance at www.agilealliance.org.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education through the 5 Saturdays program.  Visit www.5Saturdays.org to donate your time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter @DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast is produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Copyright 2018 KnolShare