The FirstFollower is what Transforms a Lone Nut into a Leader
Yves Hanoulle pointed me in his blog to a concept that I think he has heard about from Chris Matts. I love inspirations from awesome coaches🙂 First Follower To create a movement, someone has to start and become the leader. But as long as this someone stays alone, s/he is not yet a leader, s/he’s […]
Test-Driven Conversations
At the AgileCoachCamp US, Derek W. Wade ran a session on the advocacy/inquiry interaction pattern, titled “WTF” (Where’s that from). The basic idea is simple: when we listen to a statement of another person, we assume a certain context, in which we would have made such a statement. Derek had a nice example: Joe comes […]
Kanban Considered Harmful? turned into Quality of Life
The AgileCoachCamp US in Columbus, Ohio, was in many ways an enlightening and awesome event. Pascal Pinck invited me to come, meeting him and talking to him was one of the highlights of the weekend. This won’t be my last post about ACCUS… Kanban Considered Harmful? I had a few conversations at the SoCal Kanban/Lean […]
ALE2011—The Story of Organising with a Purpose
I already wrote about the organisational model, thanked all the contributors… Oana, Franck, Marcin and I were the ALE2011 program sofa fellows and gathered our thoughts about the story in a prezi. Â Now you can see our talk about The Story of Organising ALE2011 It all starts on Skype… (the same post is now available […]
ALE2011—The Story of Organising with a Purpose
I already wrote about the organisational model, thanked all the contributors… Oana, Franck, Marcin and I were the ALE2011 program sofa fellows and gathered our thoughts about the story in a prezi. Â Now you can see our talk about The Story of Organising ALE2011 It all starts on Skype… (the same post is now available […]
ALE2011 keynote—Bjarte Bogsnes on Beyond Budgeting
A New Business Model for New Business Realities Enjoy Bjarte Bogsnes’ keynote from ALE2011 last week. Bjarte Bogsnes about Beyond Budgeting at ALE2011 .
Anarchy with a Purpose—a Model for Emergent Awesomeness
An amazing crowd of volunteers organised the first gathering of the Agile Lean Europe network, ALE2011. It happened last week, and being part of the organisation team has not only been an honour and a pleasure, but also the most successful project I was ever involved with. Why? Because the organisation was emergent, the leadership and responsibility […]
Impressions from ALE2011—Day 2
The second day of ALE2011 started with an amazing keynote by Bjarte Bogsnes on Beyond Budgeting. I had seen a video of his talk at LESS2010 in Helsinki, bought his book… And invited him to come to our unconference. Which he did! [amazon asin=”0470405163″ template=”simpleimage”] Beyond Budgeting is a topic that deserves its own post, […]
Impressions from ALE2011—Day 1
After my first Thank You last weekend (which I feel inclined to repeat: Thank you all for making it an amazing experience!) I’ll now write up my impressions in a timeline, focussing on my learnings. Preparation Last Tuesday I went to the venue around lunchtime to meet early-arriving peers for preparation. We went to lunch […]
