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Sixteen years of two leaders arguing in public.

Josh Anderson and Bob Galen, since the iPod era. Season one was 264 episodes on agile. Season two is leadership. We pivoted before the industry did.

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LATEST · OCT 19 · 30:01

The 1 Measuring Stick We Hold Every Leader To

What would change if you treated every person on your team as someone else's precious cargo? A friend of the show visited her son at Fort Bragg and came home less worried, because his leaders clearly took responsibility…

SEASON ONE · 2010 TO 2023264 episodesAgile, while the industry was still figuring out what it meant.
SEASON TWO · 2023 TO NOW143 episodesLeadership. The people, the pressure, and now the AI in the room.
THE PIVOT407 episodesOur content evolved before the industry did. Still ranked in the top ten agile podcasts.

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