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Visual Summary of Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide
After providing my 13th verbal summary of my session at Agile 2012, I realized that I did not have an infographic summarizing the session and book – An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide....
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Beyond the Maelstrom: Chaotic Behaviour is matter of Perspective
I created the painting below almost two years ago to reflect the pain, frustration and disconnection I felt as an Agile consultant when working with a large organization. At the time I thought of Agile...
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KrisMap: An Organisation’s Persona
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) Essence of Kris Imagine your ideal organization. We may think of the organizational culture as the “personality” of the company. What is the personality of this...
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An Influencer’s Playbook
(Joint post with Pascal Pink) I was extremely privileged to share a day with Pascal Pinck and learn his “playbook” as a powerful influencer. His lessons span mental models, coaching stance and tools...
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Working with Systems of People
This post is about some important thoughts on working with organizations that I learned from Michael Spayd, co-founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, some time ago. A key part of my learning is about...
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Tactics, Strategy, & Culture – A Model for Thinking about Organizational Change
The following diagram is a powerful mental frame to help understand change efforts within organizations. It makes the discernment between tactical, strategic and cultural levels. One way to use the...
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Hierarchy = The Matrix
The hierarchy is at the very center of our lives. We have experienced it in our school years and later when working in organizations. It’s existence and function is tacit in our understanding of...
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Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability
Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is...
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Transformation? Leaders Go First!
Let us consider an organization that wants to transform itself. i.e. to change in structure and character. A simple view would be as follows: By state, I mean the complex system that represents the...
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Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation
In a recent post I talked about the nature of transformation as personal activity and the need for leaders to go first. But, how do we as change artists and leaders go first? Traditionally we think...
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Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is a Greek word for a transformational container, such as a cut off piece of land dedicated to a king or god. It is a contained space of spiritual...
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Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships
“If we’re serious about exploring the world around us, we have to explore the world within us.” - Ken Robinson (Joint post with Olaf Lewitz - Temenos Series) The Temenos container provides a powerful...
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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos
A friend of mine asked me what is going on with all this touchy-feely people and personal growth stuff – “What’s it got to do with Agile?” My answer: everything! So this post ties together: Agile,...
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Build Culture Adapters to Avoid Agile Failure
The purpose of this post is to explain why building culture adapters around at team or group is a good idea. It is important for me to revisit this topic from my book and conference presentations since...
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How to Build a Culture Bubble
The post is about how one can create a bubble of a new culture inside of an existing organization. For example, this may be used by a group interested in developing an innovation and learning culture...
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Organizational Transformation Checklist
In this post I am sharing workshop results on how to understand the readiness of the leadership to undertake organizational transformation such as the intentional upgrade of the cultural operating...
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How Change Initiatives Damage Organizations and Fail
A simple (and misunderstood) way people think of their change initiative like this: Their organization is just sitting there, ready to change in wonderful ways. We just have to tell people how great...
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10 Things Executives Need to Know about Agile
Slide deck with the top 10 things executives need to know about Agile: 10 things executives need to know about agile from Michael Sahota Here’s the list with some handy links: Agile Is Mainstream Many...
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Guy Lawrence – former CEO at Vodafone – tells of an organizational transformation effort that is intrinsically tied to office renovation – he says: “Conventional offices and working is dead”. A Simple...
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Agile is NOT the Goal (Workshop)
Here is how to run a one hour workshop turn your “Agile” initiative into something valuable, sustainable and open the door for real change (transformation). This may be the most important hour in your...
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