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Failureship and the Parent-Child Relationship
Organisations need to move from Leader-Follower to Leader-Leader relationships according to David Marquet’s book “Turning the ship around”. This is very similar to Eric Berne’s transaction analysis...
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How the failureship destroys teams
The unit of delivery in agile is the long lived cross functional team. Rather than individuals struggling to perform their allocated tasks, a team takes responsibility for delivery of work items that...
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Saving teams from the failure culture
The unit of delivery in a risk managed culture is a cross functional team. How do you create value delivering cross functional teams? Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash The diagram below displays the...
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Failure culture and the annual bonus
We are now in the middle of the season where failure cultures engage in devastating acts of self harm known as “Comp(ensation) day”, “Promotion day”, “Bonus day” or just plain “Disappointment” day....
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Building teams in a risk managed culture.
Once we have identified the teams we need to deliver value, the next step is to create the teams. As always, the way we reduce the risk in a system is to increase liquidity by creating options....
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Recruitment in a risk managed culture
Organisations attempting to transform to a more innovative and diverse risk managed culture often struggle with recruitment. Failure culture almost exclusively hire people to fill a role whereas risk...
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Learning to learn in a risk managed culture
Whereas learning in a failure culture is dominated by training courses, personal study and certification, learning in a risk managed culture occurs as people do the work and solve new problems,...
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Trust, the Achilles heel of Failureship, and Intregrity
In the early days of Agile, many in the Agile leadership community embraced “Trust First” meaning if you trust me, I’ll deliver. Some of them hunted for ways to “build trust fast”, looking for a magic...
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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be one of the small boat captains who made such a difference at Dunkirk? To do a small thing that was part of something vastly bigger than yourself? To...
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Failureship and “Show, don’t tell”
Thirty years ago I moved to London from the North of England. To fill my empty dance card I took night classes in short short story writing. Thirty years later the one thing we were taught that is...
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Real Options and the Cynefin Estuarine Framework
David Snowden recently gave a Complexity Lounge talk about the new Estuarine Framework. The Estuarine Framework is starting to incorporate real options, even if its creators are unaware of the fact....
View ArticleKanban sucks!
Nigel Thurlow wrote a linkedIn post stating that the Kanban used in Agile Software Development is not the same as the Kanban used in manufacturing. Nigel is the most knowledgeable person I know on...
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The Failureship Dynamic
One of the most profound discoveries during the study and practice of failureship has been that Eric Berne’s transaction analysis is ideally suited to understand the failureship dynamic. Whereas...
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Leadership strategies to address Failureship
When leading a failureship on the journey from a risk averse to a risk managed culture, there are two entangled parts of the culture that need to be addressed… “Uncertainty avoidance” and “Power...
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Failureship counter measures
The best metaphor for a new leader in an organisation with a failureship culture is Doctor Who (New Leader) and his relationship with the Tardis (The organisation). Doctor Who frantically rushes...
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“Reaching up” in a failureship culture
Quality only emerges if people care. That was one of the conclusions of Robert M. Persig’s “Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintainance”. In organisations, there are two types of people. Those that...
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