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Singing stone and bird story-strategic signals can you hear them?

Tony Sedgwick — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:17:28 +0000

Life and business is a journey. It’s all about dynamic movement ,connections and the web of information.To get to what is wanted and perhaps what is needed in modern terms a goal,there is always a need for a journey . A game of snakes and ladders ,ups and downs. Certain signals from the cosmic web, the ecosystem or the market gives all the information that is needed to nudge the journey to go in another direction.But is the businesses sensors strong enough or sensitive enough to pick up these signals. With fast moving eniviroments are people even looking for these signals . These are the strategic signals often hidden often hard to read but are the key to the journey a business or person needs to take ……..

Agile business communities -humans desperate to connect

Tony Sedgwick — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:18:57 +0000

So I was going to buy a new pair of shorts . Simple job , go into a shop , try them on and hand over some cash . I went into a big shop in Oxford street, flashy signs and there in the middle of the men’s section was a coffee bar . So what’s that ? I got a pair of shorts and took them over to a very helpful assistant to try and try them on . What’s your name said the assistant ? Why do you want to know that I replied. Well he said we want to really get to know you and I want to put your name on the door of the changing room !

Communities are all about people knowing each other . Depending on each other and supporting each other . Face book ,social media retail brands ,organisations are all searching for the most basic human need to be in a community ..

detachment must be the biggest challenge to the new society in front of us. Great communication has stopped the primitive activities such as sitting around a fire . The distracted mind hops from place to place preventing authentic interaction .

if we are going to make organisations really work it has to be a community ……..⊕

Scrum masters,servant leaders and the corporate shaman

Tony Sedgwick — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:06:10 +0000

Creating organisations that really work is difficult .Creating pharmaceutical R and D organisations that really work is even more difficult .

The old command and control KPI system is dead . It always relied on the top guys being very clever and the researchers just executing their commands . So we need self regulating systems . The essence of the book by Brafman and Beckstrom that organisations should set themselves up like starfish (self regulation) not spiders ( central control) .

The core position in this book that orchestrates this is a character seen in the Apache culture . The Nantan. Little is really described in the book about this character . It describes an individual who appears to lead when needed . It is the shaman of the system or as modern terminology would describe it a servant leader . The servant leader or perhaps to use an even more modern word , the scrum master ensures the system or culture is acceptant of the self regulating organisation or team . The servant leader needs a deep understanding of the politics and influence on the key figures of an organisation . Culture is key ……..