Agile—A Courageous Choice
“Olaf took the audience on a journey and the slides were about the least of it. He started by breaking their expectations, moved them through an activity that was engaging, opening, and enlightening. He gave them permission to get deeper into their own being than they usually do and he encouraged them to go deeper […]
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 […]
Mystery, Magic, or Science?
I’m at ALE14 unconference in Krakow, enjoying lots of inspiring and engaging conversations. I have a special connection to this event and its people, as I organised the first ALE conference three years ago in Berlin. this is a draft post… written in a hallway while Pablo is waiting for me to come join him […]
Innovation Requires Forgiveness
Safe-to-fail experiments for product and process are not enough. We also need safe-to-fail interactions for people. Innovation requires forgiveness. Last week at Agile2014, I did this pecha kucha in the lightning talk session on “People“. This is my abstract: Innovation Requires Forgiveness Teams and organisation fostering innovation and creativity struggle with a motivational challenge after a […]
De-Scaling Inspirations
De-Scale Your Organisation! You deserve to love what you do. Our environment has not evolved in a way that helps us realising that. This talk explains why and how that is so, and what to do to make it better. Like physical systems our organizations build up scales or blockages during healthy function and growth. We’re […]
