Chances are, the future belongs to organizations who will become Agile with the use of a mirror and a Google show-and-tell not a consultancy's overpriced strategy deck
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n a fight where "Us" is the "Versus Silos" and "Them" is the "Safe, Happy and Open Agile Team" - which one are you willing to bet the survival of your company on?
Many argue that there is a substantial difference between "DevOps" and "Agile". I think it's semantics and here's why.
We talk about the future of work in the same way that we talk about flying cars - it's coming, it's inevitable and it's ubiquitous but the reality is that it's nothing but a SciFi concept meant to soothe our present anxiety and will remain consigned to a fantasy, unless we are willing to allow ourselves to open our minds and hearts and examine everything to find what really works in how we're working.
Of all the data points it seems that the clearest correlation between team behavior and creating and fostering Psychological Safety is whether or not team members feel they have been heard.
he Agile manifesto says it clearly: it's all about the people not the process. Despite that, most people that come near it will try to rely on process and overcomplicate the procedure and the terminology because keeping it fundamentally simple is a lot more complicated than it looks and requires a degree of emotional intelligence many people were not called to exercise in their work lives.
It's the skills that can't be replicated with as much ease before the Turing test workers and their leaders should focus on
There has been a lot of talk on the topic of aligning incentives to the company strategy but what happens when that strategy is nebulous itself? What happens when the overt goals of the organization are stuck in McKinsey slides hell while its real needs, clear to one and all don’t […]
In our practice at PeopleNotTech, we tell organizations that if they want Google, Apple or Amazon-like results they need Google, Apple or Amazon-like work culture. It is that simple. To emulate the velocity and speed of innovation that have created their success, one of the key things that these organizations uphold and eternally strive to better, is psychological safety.
Almost 5 years ago I came up with the concept of “Emotional Banking™” which can only be described as an overall amount of outrage in the face of a stark reality: retail banks spend little to no time, effort and money on investigating the consumers’ feelings about their money. I […]
"It is undoubtedly a lack of courage issue or else “Got fired for buying non-IBM” would be on one’s LinkedIn list of crowning achievements"...
In time, the gap between hopeful expectation about their role and the ability to change the world versus the harsh, stifling reality of the corporate environment, sees people either give up and leave or more likely and arguably even worse, give up and stay.