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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Hero | What Servant Leadership Really Means: Episode 116
What does servant leadership look like when you’re responsible for more than one team?In this episode of Take Five IRL, Jeff Lee and Mike Studeman explore why servant leadership becomes even more important at the senior director level. The job isn’t to attend every meeting or solve every problem yourself. It’s to address the conflicting priorities, delayed decisions, outdated policies, and cross-functional bottlenecks that make good work harder than it needs to be.They discuss how leaders can create clarity, hold people accountable without creating a culture of blame, and build an organization that doesn’t depend on a hero to keep things moving.Subscribe for more practical conversations about leadership, agility, and improving how work gets done.Learn more about agilityIRL: https://agilityirl.com#ServantLeadership #Leadership #AgileLeadership #TakeFiveIRL
22 Sept 2026
You're Not Done. You're Just Creating Inventory.
When your team says a feature is “done,” what still has to happen before it can actually be released?
Documentation?
Testing?
Traceability updates?
Quality review?
Risk assessment?
Every “yes” represents unfinished work—and unfinished work is inventory that slows flow, extends cycle times, and creates the end-of-release scramble regulated teams know too well.
In the newest episode of Take Five IRL, Pat Campbell and Mike Studeman explain why a Definition of Done is more than a checklist. It’s a promise of quality, transparency, and release readiness.
Because “done” shouldn’t mean finishing your part. It should mean finishing the work.
If you like what you hear, download our free "Definition of Done" checklist here: https://lnkd.in/gUuPbydj (https://lnkd.in/gUuPbydj)
Listen to the latest episode and take this week’s five-minute challenge: review your Definition of Done and identify everything your team is still leaving until later.
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16 Sept 2026
Why AI Readiness Starts With Leadership: Episode 114
AI isn’t going to fix your organization’s problems. In fact, it might help you create them faster.In this episode of Take Five IRL, Mike Studeman and Pat Campbell explore why true AI readiness doesn’t start with choosing the right technology, it starts with leadership.AI is a multiplier. Strong priorities, effective decision-making, and healthy product development systems can become even better with AI. But unclear priorities, overloaded teams, and broken processes? AI can accelerate those too.Mike and Pat discuss why leaders need to define the business outcomes they actually want AI to improve, establish clear governance and guardrails, and determine where human judgment still matters. They also explain why the question shouldn’t be “Which AI tools should we buy?” but rather “What business problem are we trying to solve?”And this episode’s Take Five Challenge gives leadership teams a simple exercise: identify the three biggest challenges you want AI to help solve, then ask whether you’ve actually addressed the underlying processes first.In this episode:Why AI readiness begins in the executive suiteHow AI can amplify both good and broken systemsWhy business outcomes should come before technologyThe role of leadership in AI governanceWhy competitive advantage comes from your ability to learn and adapt, not simply the AI tools you purchaseHow to avoid automating chaosLearn more about how agilityIRL helps organizations improve product development and prepare for AI at agilityirl.com.👍 Like the episode and subscribe for more practical conversations about leadership, product development, AI, and ways of working that actually work in real life.#AI (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ai) #ArtificialIntelligence (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/artificialintelligence) #AIReadiness (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/aireadiness) #Leadership (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/leadership) #AIGovernance (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/aigovernance) #ProductDevelopment (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/productdevelopment) #BusinessTransformation (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/businesstransformation) #Agile (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/agile) #TakeFiveIRL (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/takefiveirl) #agilityIRL (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/agilityirl)
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