Cooks and Chefs: Why Agile Hasn’t Fixed Our ProblemsCooks follow recipes. Chefs create them. It’s much easier to copy recipes that work, and for many aspects of our life, it probably makes…Oct 29, 2020123Oct 29, 2020123
Collective Sensemaking for Wicked ProblemsImagine you were just invited to play a game, but no one knows the rules. What do you do when something doesn’t make sense? Well, as each…Aug 11, 20202421Aug 11, 20202421
The Four Lenses of Wicked LeadershipThe four lenses operate in a continuum between the poles of the invisible aspects (left side) and the visible aspects (right side), as…Jun 13, 20201Jun 13, 20201
The Infinite GameThere was a time when Enron Corp. was considered one of the best corporations in the world. It was voted “most innovative” six years in a…May 29, 202052May 29, 202052
Operation Cat Drop: Why it’s Important to Think in Systems.System. We hear and use the word all the time. “There’s no sense in trying to buck the system,” we might say. Or, “ I need a better…Mar 10, 20203Mar 10, 20203
Leadership at All LevelsI will forever remember the night of May 29, 1991. Not because it was my birthday but because my dad and I watched the Red Star Belgrade…Mar 4, 20204Mar 4, 20204
Published inThe StartupTitanic MindsetI have always been fascinated by the story of the Titanic, and why the ship met its tragic fate. From the architects and engineers, to the…Mar 4, 2020123Mar 4, 2020123
The demise of the Scrum MasterOnce upon a time, the Scrum Master role was an outlandish concept at the fringes of software development. Now there are thousands of Scrum…Feb 20, 2020591Feb 20, 2020591
Accepting What “Already Is”The status quo of forcing and imposing change in organizations can only be transcended by leadership first accepting what “already is”…Feb 18, 2020141Feb 18, 2020141
