You are Still a Part of Us.
Today, we learned that a slight majority of the British voters voted to leave the EU. Now emotions are “cooking high” as we say in German, we observe expressions of sadness and frustration, anger and anxiety, joy and celebration… With all of this context – our memories and feelings and hopes and assumptions and … […]
Sponsoring ALE2016
This year, I’m sponsoring a conference for the first time. Here I’m sharing why to inspire others to follow my lead. Sponsoring ALE16 Giving Back In the five years since its inception, the Agile Lean Europe community, ALE for short, has been generous to me. It has provided me with learning and leadership opportunities, great […]
Showing Up – Our New Book
Christine Neidhardt and I published the source book of our TrustTemenos Leadership Academy: Showing Up. Our next Academy starts in October 2016. Leadership is Showing Up I define leadership as the extent to which we have clarity of identity – we know who we are, clarity of reality – we know where we are, what’s going […]
Heart and Soul of ALE
ALE16 will happen in Paris. Last three days of August. Sponsor, and join us! Five years of Agile Lean Europe. What a journey, and roller-coaster ride! In 2011, I’ve been heart and center of the creation of our first ALE unconference, ALE2011 in Berlin. We met and engaged to “share because we care”. It was […]
eXtreme Listening
Last December at XPDays Benelux, Ole Jepsen and I hosted a session on eXtreme Listening. This is what happened. Extreme Listening We started with some good old rock’n’roll. I don’t remember what we played, yet I tend to err on the heavy side. It was loud, as the point was that people become aware that […]
Musing on and about Coherence
Over the last year, I’ve been more and more inspired and intrigued by the concept of coherence. It’s come up from a number of angles, in different contexts of conversation. I think it was Dave Snowden who made me want to investigate it more deeply when he said that SAFe was incoherent, which sounded so much […]
Creating a Space of Trust
Workshop description of my APIL16 session titled Creating a Space of Trust. Made up in the spur of the moment, captured for fair use. Announced like this: Trust is a subjective quality of a situation. It’s messy, situational and contextual. How can we make sense of it? How can we improve it? And: what impact would […]
Surprisability
In the past we’ve built businesses and organisations to last. We were afraid. We needed predictability to feel safe. Now we have the confidence to grow businesses that offer less safety yet more creativity, serendipity and fun. We foster the surprisability of organisations: Our ability to grow from surprises, to rise strong from falling. This […]
State of Agile Retrospective
Within a longer process of change, maybe an agile transformation, you might at some point want to reflect where you are, and what to do next. A side-effect of boosting engagement, creating a sense of movement and purpose, might be beneficial. This is an example of a retrospective I’ve done in such a situation. Make Sense […]
