They promised us to radically change the world, they promised us victory, but it didn’t happen did it? It has been 10 years now since we Agile Advocates hang the Agile manifesto up on our wall, so what went wrong? Although there are at least hundred of Agile books out there how many do you […]
It’s not very sexy to say we’ll start by studying. Managers like to do things, they want to start and do their program of change. Saying ‘Let’s study’ is also rude because it implies they don’t know what’s going on. I attended the Systems Thinking – Leaders Summit recently and John Seddon opened the conference […]
It’s not very sexy to say we’ll start by studying. Managers like to do things, they want to start and do their program of change. Saying ‘Let’s study’ is also rude because it implies they don’t know what’s going on. Last Thursday, I attended the Systems Thinking – Leaders Summit and John Seddon opened the […]
In the years during and immediately after World War II, the Melanesian Islanders witnessed quite a spectacle. This small population of ‘unsophisticated’ peoples observed the, at that time, largest war ever fought between two technologically advanced countries: the United States and Japan. These natives had never seen modern civilization before. They were amazed by the […]
This month’s and immediately also our first guest blogger is none other than John Seddon. John Seddon is an occupational psychologist and management thinker credited with translating the Toyota Production System (TPS) for service organisations. John maintains the TPS is not a set of tools, but a different way of thinking about the design and […]
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