Culture is the Core of Your Organization
Culture is at the core how orgs function: management, structure, roles, process, & behaviors are all connected and need to change together.
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Culture Change: Reinventing Organizations
Infographic: how to get better results by increasing trust & consciousness to drive engagement. Keys to Culture Change
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People over Process – Win with People
We outline a fundamentally different approach for organizational change: one where valuing people is integral to building lasting success. VIDEO & SLIDES
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Letting Go of Agile (Culture)
“If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it was never yours to begin with.”
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Stop Agile Initiatives!
I am sick to death of Agile Initiatives because they usually fail. Sure there are some companies where Agile just fits, but the most common case is a culture conflict. Best fix I know is: Agile is NOT the Goal (Workshop)
Goodbye From the Bobs
(This is goodbye letter shared with the department Paul Heidema and I have been working with for the last few months).
“WHY Agile?” Workshop
A key success factor in any Agile transformation is understanding WHY Agile – what do we really want? Here's how to run a "Why Workshop".
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Guy Laurence – Culture Change Through Renovation
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 Recipe: Death to cubicles and offices Buy everyone in the company a cell phone and a laptop. Remove all offices and cubicles.
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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.
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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 our new initiative is and they will be lining up to learn more and make things happen. Right? Unfortunately, organizations are complex.
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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.
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How to Build a Culture Bubble
This 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 inside a typical bureaucratic organization. This post is a continuation of my earlier post on how to Build Culture Adapters to Avoid Agile Failure.
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