[#015] What Can We Learn from Shortcuts?
Tom Hulme talks to us about how design and user experience don’t always see eye to eye. He explores how we can fix this through the lens of desire paths.
Business Agility TV
Interesting videos that we have found that deepen our understanding of Business Agility.
[#014] What is leadership?
Captain David Marquet gives us his view on leadership. This video is a great overview of his wonderful book “Turn the Ship Around!”
[#013] Introduction to Wardley Maps
Wardley Maps are a really powerful tool for deciding strategy. Here is Simon Wardley giving a very entertaining Keynote at OSCON 2014 where he discusses how he came to invent it as a technique and briefly runs through how it can be applied.
[#012] The Smell of the Place
Professor Sumantra Ghoshal talks about culture at the World Economic Forum – what he refers to as “The Smell of the Place”. He talks about what management can do to create and sustain the culture they want rather than allowing undesirable norms to grow.
[#011] If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… Systems Thinking
“The peformance of a system depends on how the parts fit, not how they act taken separately.” Dr. Russell Ackoff In this inspiring talk, Ackoff discusses the importance of looking at systems as a whole when improving. He discusses the folly of looking at a system as individual parts and improving them in isolation. Finally, …
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[#010] The Resource Utilisation Trap
We have a sticker that says “utilisation is the enemy of flow”. All too often at work, we want everyone to be super busy all of the time – without realising it, we are killing our ability to deliver. This is what Henrik Kniberg of Crisp calls “The resource utilisation trap”. In the video below, …
[#009] The Backwards Brain Bicycle
“It’s like riding a bike.” “It’s like riding a bike” is a phrase that we use in English that means, “once you’ve learned how to do something, you will never forget it.” This video shows us that we take our truth for granted, unaware of our bias. It also shows that knowledge does not equal …
[#008] First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
How do we start a movement?
We put leaders and mavericks on a pedastal, but Derek Sivers shows us that being the leader is not enough. A leader is nothing without followers. Watch the Dancing Guy demonstrate this and see what you learn.
[#007] The Happiness Advantage
What do you think is the relationship between Happiness and Success? Earlier this year I read Shawn Achor’s “The Happiness Advantage”. Apart from being an entertaining read, it’s a real eye-opener on how back to front we have got the Success and Happiness relationship. There are cultural blocks we have in place that hamper our …
[#006] Don’t be an Underpant Gnome!
Gojko Adzic and Christian Hassa did a keynote for Playcamp 2016 in which they looked at some tools for Impact Mapping. In the preamble to the tools they showed this to help people understand the “Why” of Impact Mapping: AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO This is your challenge. Share this page with people you think will find …