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.
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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, High-Performance Culture with People skills and Temenos Workshop among others. Here is my current roadmap of focus areas.
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Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships
The Temenos container provides a powerful mental model for understanding and improving relationships with others. Too often we do not consider the larger context of the situations we are in.
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Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is also the name of a special kind of experiential laboratory (usually delivered as a weekend lab) that Siraj Sirajuddin has created over many years integrating diverse influences.
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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?
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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:
Tactics, Strategy, & Culture – A Model for Thinking about Organizational Change
This is a powerful framework to understand organizational change efforts. It discerns between tactical, strategic, and cultural levels.
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How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile – Screencast
Here is a video primer of the Schneider Culture Model and how Agile, Software Craftsmanship and Kanban fit in. It is recorded in HD so you may want to use full screen and 720p resolution to see all the slides.
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