Overview of eight registered copyrights and expectations for use by innovation practitioners, consultants, and public speakers.

Ruthless Grace is the combination of high discipline and high empathy. Ruthless - not cruelty or punishment - but the likelihood of a sunrise and sunset tomorrow. Grace reminds us that we are human and our teams are human.

You’re familiar with financial debt. Software developers know Tech Debt. If you execute a methodology formulated 20+ years ago, you have Methodology Debt.

Your innovation team is a factory. Hopefully not just a factory of meetings and emails. Hopefully not just a software factory. Your collaborative team is an expectation factory.

Approachability is an advantage. Making coaching easy is an advantage. This tool minimizes the effort to manage expectations, manage perceptions, and share helpful feedback across three communication channels.

There is a time and place for exotic word choice. Your project plan is not that place. Verb Sprawl creates ambiguity and noise. Verb Sprawl slows your planning and slows the interpretation of your plan.

The RACI matrix almost got it right but still harbors too much ambiguity. In your team’s formal planning, govern only what is worth documenting outside email, and nothing else. Govern with just Five Verbs: Draft, Review, Revise, Approve, Distribute.

Two decades of software-centric methodologies but what makes innovation teamwork difficult is people. Elegance is for innovators ready for a people-centric methodology.

The Agile Manifesto is 20+ years old. Let’s rewrite it for this decade.

In the style of the Agile Manifesto, what if we rewrote it from the start? What would you write?

Project-specific calculations are important but can be optimistic and unrealistic. What’s more constructive is cross-project prioritization. Instead of sweating calculations, ensure your organization starts, completes, and prioritizes the right work.

Bundling a group of highly-paid employees into a group labeled a Steering Committee fosters a culture of ambiguity, ego, exclusivity, and high cost. Assign those individuals to maximize speed, quality, inclusivity, and durability.