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The book club: Enabling conversation across organisation boundaries
Once upon a time, individual knowledge stayed relevant for a lifetime. A blacksmith would learn how to make horseshoes or swords as a...
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Show don’t tell: The art of generative transformation
Silence, stats and restraint are good places to start if you want to explore the mental side of peak performance. Nobody wants to be told...
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Quarterly offsites: A ways of working pattern for connection, reflection and co-creation
As we are on the plane ride back to our respective global locations from Lake Como in Italy, the location of our quarterly team offsite,...
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Against all odds, COVID-19 does boost business agility
Economists might argue that the Covid-19 crisis caused a lot of damage to companies in terms of profitability. I strongly believe the...
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Improving through learning
Building a product like a start-up in a large organization. Sounds like an oxymoron? Yes, it may, but this is our story … It all started...
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A sense of urgency
The world changed on June 26, 2018. It happened quietly. Few people even noticed. But that was the day that, after more than a century,...
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I made a robot that screams!
A story about the consequence of being too clever for our own good! Last weekend I had my first on-the-ground, in-person, ear-splitting...
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Business agility pulse check – Q1 2021
Over the course of 3 months starting November 2020, the release date of ‘Sooner Safer Happier, Patterns & Antipatterns for Business...
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The danger of noisy agreement and the safety of quiet dissent
We have witnessed, and participated in, very many conversations lately about psychological safety. It is a topic that encompasses all...
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What do servant leadership & psychological safety look like?
I’ve written before about showing people how to do things, by involving them in the doing, is a nicer way to lead (and teach) than...
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Office Politics are everywhere, get involved!
we agility practitioners shouldn’t ignore it, we should be Office Political Activists “Happier covers customers, colleagues, citizens,...
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A more humane way of working
I’m drawn to the Sooner Safer Happier purpose: “A movement enabling organizations to achieve better outcomes for all and a more humane...
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