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Engineer Your Own Luck

Engineer Your Own Luck

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur Are you feeling lucky? If you’re an engineer or a developer, you’ll appreciate the idea that you can design for luck or stack the deck in your favor. How do you do this? As Harry Golden said, “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” While I believe in hard work, …

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Execution Gap

Smart Minds, Struggling Hands: Overcoming the Execution Gap

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about overcoming the Execution Gap through my own experiences leading teams and executing projects. While the Execution Gap is often discussed in terms of organizations, I want to focus on the individual and team level, where self-awareness …

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Just Start

Just Start

“Just Do It.” – Nike How do you defeat procrastination and find your motivation? Just start. Just Start is a practice I introduced in my book, Getting Results the Agile Way, because I wanted a simple phrase and a pithy reminder of how to find your motivation and take action. I wanted a very simple …

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Overview of Action

Taking action is essential. It’s how you make things happen. By taking action, you can test what works and what doesn’t. When you take action, you produce results. If you’re not getting the results you want, then you can change your approach. When a ship is sailing, it can correct its course. The same is …

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Guidelines for Prioritizing More Effectively

You can’t do it all, and you certainly can’t do it all at once. Prioritizing is about asking what’s important and what’s more important now. Time changes what’s important. Values influence what’s important. One way to stay grounded in your priorities is to continuously ask yourself, “What do I want to accomplish?” This will help …

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About the Author

JD I am J.D. Meier, the creator of Agile Results. My approach has been forged in the fire of the fast-moving software business. Learn more ...

What is Agile Results?

Agile Results is a simple productivity system for work and life. It helps you spend more time in your strengths, less time in your weaknesses, and do the things that matter most, with focus, clarity, and better energy. Learn more...

The Book that Changes Lives

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Agile Productivity for Work and Life

Agile Results is a simple system for meaningful results. Use stories, scenario-driven results, and timeboxing, to improve your results, master your time management, improve your motivation, and finally achieve work-life balance. Get a fresh start each day, each week, each month, each year.

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