Often leaders believe they are the embodiment of an ‘open-door’ policy. There is a big gap between leaders who say they are accessible and those who are actually approachable. 

Not dealing with difficult is initially easy. Unfortunately for every small issue in your team that you sweep into the ‘at least’ closet you create a burden of the unresolved. Over time, inside that closet of unresolved explodes back at you.

"The servant-leader practices described in the literature are designed to enact the core servant-leadership ethics or values, which are to share decision-making, to be caring and to enhance the lives of workers and the quality of organizational life (Spears, 2003)."

Scaling Agile is as organic as the humans involved. Regardless of the methodologies or tools you bring; a successful and sustainable scaled agile program depends on a good human foundation. Agile is driven by people and molded by company culture. People and companies have underlying and historic values that need to be relinquished or evolved, otherwise they will rust any practices you put in place.

Richard Turere's TED talk: My invention that made peace with lions is a TED talk that highlights the beauty of invention and the possibility that there may always be a solution - you just have to not give up after the first failure.

At the time I was quite befuddled because I have my grandmas disgruntled attitude towards politicians.I realised this person felt this way because they saw me blending with so many parties rather than taking 'a side'. I am able to view a situation from anyone's perspective and be adaptive as needed to reach the communal goals.

Dissolving the day to day panic often faced by passionate yet tired staff of community services organisations can seem quite overwhelming.