The Complete Play allows Celebration One of the six plays in the Industrial Age management playbook was CONTINUE — continue the redwork of production as long as possible, minimizing interruptions. Now, we want to chunk the work into smaller intervals that allow us to reflect, improve, and celebrate what we’ve done. The new play is...
A: How has being exposed to the agile community influenced your new book, Leadership Is Language? For example, the SCRUM and SAFe cycles? Q: If we don’t relieve the pressure of the clock, its hard to shift to thinking mode, then collaborate with each other (not coerce) so we get commitments. So, from...
The Industrial Age playbook was designed to keep the team in redwork for as long as possible. An uninterrupted assembly line turning our product day after day after day. We still default to those plays that keep the team in motion, moving forward, making “progress.” Any stoppage of the assembly line, any pause in redwork,...
The Industrial Age play was Continue – continue the work as long as possible. Picture an assembly line running uninterrupted. The Industrial Age playbook was designed to maximize the time teams spent in redwork. That’s why the management plays we default to follow the same pattern: first, obey the clock, then coerce people into doing...
This is part 4 of 4 of the ABCs of Cultural Change. The senior executives argued that any initiative that was not reflected in the company’s performance evaluation system wouldn’t stick. They called it accountability. Based on Aubrey Daniels’ book, Bringing out the Best in People, we agreed and felt that the word “consequence” was a better fit....
The CompleteThe play at the end of redwork where we pause to reflect on what we have accomplished, celebrate that, and invite others to tell their stories. Play allows Celebration One of the six plays in the Industrial AgeThe period when humans developed large complex organizations based on machines. Factories, assembly lines, plantations, and railroads were dominant during...
A: How has being exposed to the agile community influenced your new book, Leadership Is Language? For example, the SCRUM and SAFe cycles? Q: If we don’t relieve the pressure of the clock, its hard to shift to thinking mode, then collaborateThe play where we learn from others thereby making our product, ideas, and lives better. This...
The Industrial AgeThe period when humans developed large complex organizations based on machines. Factories, assembly lines, plantations, and railroads were dominant during the Industrial Age. The Industrial Age organizational design was optimized to use humans to reduce variability and comply with their masters’ instructions. This fundamental structure shapes our organizational design and language today. playbook was designed...
