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Systems & People

Businesses need to apply Systems Thinking.
People have to exercise a Growth Mindset.

Becoming faster while achieving better results. This idea made the Agile movement so strong. Yet, understanding Agile bears some remarkable risks.

Organizations have the tendency to transpose the reason into methods.

To keep up with the reason, we have to free up Agile from wrong interpretations. Cure comes from growing awareness and understanding – about the systems we are working in and the people we are working for.

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Enjoy browsing the content. Find stuff that is highly relevant for you. Follow up on your own findings. And if you like, spot your ideas and reflections on me. This place is open for discussion!

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  • Social Behavior

    Diversity of Minds – Knowing Better

    July 8, 2019 / No Comments
    Diversity Minds - Knowing Better

    We do not know better.
    We know differently.
    Sometimes we know more
    and sometimes we know less.
    But, we never know all.

    Inherently we know, we need each other.
    Sometimes we just forget about it.
    We do not know better.

    Harald Dietrich

    Effective collaboration asks for balanced contribution of everyone. Also, it requires a high degree of acceptance, that we do not know things better than others. The things we know are based on our own experiences and our own way of thinking. But, there is a limit to our experiences, which never allows a diversity of…

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  • Way of Working

    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    July 7, 2019 / No Comments
    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    Harald Dietrich

    Agile Frameworks are not made for taking decisions. They are made to provide guidance, how to cope adequately with consequences. Decisions have to be in place upfront. Agile Frameworks deliver procedures, roles, rituals, formats, principles, and tools. They do not improve quality, speed, satisfaction, collaboration, flexibility, risk management, and alignment by itself. This is a…

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  • [Article],  Organization Design

    Five Job Factors: Shifting Up Work Experience

    June 17, 2019 / No Comments
    Five Job Factors: Shifting up Work Experience

    Is there anything missing with your job, which keeps you away from being really happy with it? What is it, that would change your job significantly to the better? You might be surprised what is having most influence. Do your personal reality check! There are five job factors, which come to my mind, when considering…

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  • [Article],  Trends & Predictions

    The Year they kill Agile

    December 26, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo: The Year they kill Agile

    In 2018 even the last companies tried to jump onto the Agile transformation train. Agile and Digitalization is dominating new titles and people with Agile in their mind became the new heroes. And Agile transformation programs have gained a tremendous momentum and size. At the end of 2019 none of these companies will want to…

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  • Social Behavior

    The Science of What Makes People Care

    September 26, 2018 / No Comments
    The science of what makes us care
    The Science of What Makes People Care

    If you want to run a proficient business, you will not come around, that good communication is key to success. But it is by far more than just sharing information. So how does a good communication strategy look like? In the article "The Science of What Makes People Care" five principles from social science are…

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  • Social Behavior

    Learning from a Penguin – Leave the rock and start to swim

    September 25, 2018 / No Comments

    A penguin is considered to be a clumsy, stodgy animal when placed on a rock in a zoo. But if it jumps into the water, it becomes one of the most amazing, economic swimmers you can find amongst all animals. There is a tremendous power in diversity and the contribution of people, which can work…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    We need more people who take care for the HOW

    September 23, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo - Woman on a stand searching for something further away

    I am an engineer and I am working in the software industry for many years now. Nowadays I take care for people - developers, team leaders, but even many more employees involved in running a successful business. I try to be a servant leader, who works with the people. Decisions are taken with the people…

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  • [Article],  Leadership Skills

    Tales of Unicorns and Change Makers

    August 17, 2018 / 1 Comment
    Tales of Unicorns and Change Makers

    For a long while I was chasing unicorns. Change was a wild creature of an amazing purity and grace. Like the horn of a unicorn, change was meant to be antitoxic, even having capabilities to awaken things from death. But I felt like I would never reach a level of expertise, which was of this…

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  • Personal Growth

    Oh. Oh. Oh. It’s Magic – Changing Organizations

    June 12, 2018 / No Comments
    Oh. Oh. Oh. It's Magic! Changing Organizations
    Oh. Oh. Oh. It's Magic! - Changing Organizations

    Not only telling, but real involvement is the objective of my personal Meetup group in Munich. Changing organizations can be seen from a business perspective, but also from a personal point of view. Involvement and development come hand-in-hand and ask for experimentation and surprising changes of perspective. Often it looks like magic.

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  • Organization Design

    10 Components for a Successful Self-Management Transformation

    June 8, 2018 / No Comments
    Self-Management Transformation
    10 Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (In 70+ Companies)

    What are the ingredients for a successful self-management transformation? K2K Emocionado has successfully transformed 70 organizations. In a guest post at Corporate Rebels, Lisa Gill takes a closer look at them and how they do it.

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  • Organization Design

    Learning Organizations look at themselves rather than “something out there”

    June 4, 2018 / No Comments
    Quote

    At the heart of a learning organization is a shift of mind – from seeing ourselves as separate from the world to connected to the world, from seeing problems as caused by someone or something “out there” to seeing how our own actions create the problems we experience.

    Peter M. Senge

    Cite from the book The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge.

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  • [Article],  Leadership Skills

    Facets of Trust – from Platitudes to Motivation

    June 3, 2018 / No Comments
    Facets of Trust

    Trust is the basis for friendliness and friendship - for getting support and for being loved. Being trusted is giving us a feeling of happiness. But did you ever think in more detail about the origins? It will tell you a lot about yourself. It is to be seen in close relation to success. Growing…

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  • Organization Design

    Who gives purpose to a company?

    March 8, 2018 / No Comments
    People give purpose to a company

    A company is a group of individuals, running a business is giving a mutual purpose to them. Purpose is one key factor for motivated employees (other factors are autonomy and mastery). The first person in a company, the entrepreneur, starts a company from a vision. It provides the initial purpose. As people buy-in into the…

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  • Leadership Skills

    The primary role of an Agile leader

    March 4, 2018 / No Comments
    Woman in crowd holding shiled "We are better than this"

    Autonomy, self-direction, self-management, self-organization are great goals. But you can’t force people into that either.
    Therefore, the primarily role of an Agile leader in an Agile organization is to empathize with what people need in the current context and help them grow.

    Mike Beedle

    Wise words about leadership by Mike Beedle.

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  • Organization Design

    Planning a Hackathon? Read what others do

    March 3, 2018 / No Comments
    Computer screen of a participant of a hackathon
    Hackathon Projects by Big Companies: Foursquare, Paypal, Banco Sabadell

    More and more companies plan to make use of hackathon. They want to bring innovation and hidden talents to their organization. Too compelling are the various success stories, which are telling about fabulous results. They are delivered by people, who invest a small amount of their time into an inspiring challenge. The return on invest…

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