Descale Your Organisation!
I repeated my Agile2014 talk on Descale Your Organisation at ALE2014 as a surprise talk. This time, it was professionally recorded: These are the core ideas: Virtuous Cycle to Descale Your Organisation Increase trust. Trusted people can be invited to make new choices. These choices may lead to unneeded structures (rules, processes, hierarchies…) that you can […]
Compassion For Managers
TrustTemenos Certified Agile Leadership Training: September 05/06 in London! Christine Neidhardt and I co-created a leadership training based on our leadership academy. It calls for compassionate leaders. If the story resonates with you, share it and join us! This is a post in a series, with essays from the People’s Scrum book, German edition: Des Volkes Scrum. Compassion […]
Paul Klipp on Listening Part III
Paul Klipp talked about listening at ALE2014 in Kraków. He identified three key components: Let the other think, which I covered in Part I, Understand emotional expressions, which I covered in Part II, and Train your mind to listen and understand, even when things get rough. That’s covered in this post. Imagine you’re sitting in your quiet office, diligently […]
Tools vs Presence
At ALE2014 in Kraków, we started interesting conversations around effectiveness of specific tools vs the effectiveness of our presence. It inspired me to write the draft post about Magic, Mystery or Science. Presence, in this context, means being in the moment. Practitioners of mindfulness refer to this as being mode, in contrast to doing mode […]
Paul Klipp: Components of Listening Part II
Paul Klipp talked about listening at ALE2014 in Kraków. He identified three key components: Let the other think, which I covered in Part I, Understand emotional expressions, which is covered here, and Train your mind to listen and understand, even when things get rough. Non-Violent Communication Marshal Rosenberg has developed non-violent communication to an art form. He says that […]
