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.
In football, the team that wins is the one that gets the ball in the other team’s goal most times. Not the one that runs the most. What matters most is what is happening to the ball. So, we need to watch the ball, not the player. Business is no different. In Knowledge Work what …
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When working with a flow-based Kanban system there are a few statements that I would suggest most teams should bear in mind. One of my Kanban class attendees labelled these as “Jose’s Rules for Flow” Whilst I wouldn’t go so far as to say these are hard and fast rules, they are some suggestions for …
Practice! Practice! Practice! We know that the only way to really master new knowledge is by practising it for a substantial period of time. This is the most crucial statement in the Agile Manifesto: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. But, “doing” is not everything. …
I recently discovered this video thanks to Boaz Zehavi at Vonage. The TED talk by Eduardo Briceño is excellent and covers a lots of relevant topics to Business Agility. As I was watching it, I made notes of things that reminded me of. This is the list: Learning/Performance zone has lots of parallels to Mihaly …
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This video explores the concept of Psychological Safety. This is at the core of the Google research on great teams and working spaces. It is particularly true for environments with high interdependence and uncertainty as the vast majority of software companies are. Building a psychologically safe workplace Amy Edmondson 11:26 AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO This is …
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This short video from Charles Duhigg covers how Google aims to build great teams and what sort of things are needed for that to happen. How Google builds the perfect teamCharles Duhigg02:22 RELATED MATERIALS The surprising thing Google learned about its employees and what it means for today’s students (Washington Post) AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO This …
Drive: The Truth about what Motivates usDaniel Pick10:47
How do we spread new fundamental concepts and knowledge? How do we generate conversations, reflection and improvement opportunities? How do we trigger people’s natural curiosity to find out more? How do we inspire people into trying new things? One option is to share interesting and eye-opening videos capturing some of the most fundamental concepts behind …
Since the start of 2017, I have been doing a lot of training. And when I write “a lot”, I really mean it (by my usual standards)! The majority of my training courses start with a focus on “why”. Why do we need to change? What the urgency? What’s the need? After most classes are …
