Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere are all our blog posts, in alphabetical order:
- A new round of *live* online training from Teal Unicorn
- A project is a wave in a product structure
- Advancing values in the workplace
- agile Family
- Agile: don’t work faster, do less.
- Agility can be scaled
- An article about Rob and Cherry’s work in Vietnam
- Antifragile
- Ask Us Anything #2
- Audio and video vs text
- Better wake up.
- Better work stories
- Big bang Agile
- Big bets are bad ideas… mostly.
- Blame
- Blameless culture
- Blog posts for April 2021
- Blog posts for April 2022
- Blog posts for August 2021
- Blog posts for Feb-Mar 2021
- Blog posts for February 2022
- Blog posts for January 2022
- Blog posts for July 2021
- Blog posts for June 2021
- Blog posts for March 2022
- Blog Posts for May 2021
- Blog posts for November and December 2021
- Blog posts for October 2021
- Blog posts for September 2021
- Blog posts January 2020 to January 2021
- Boeing are broken
- Bring on the Roaring Twenties
- Buffering
- Business owners and managers who don’t understand complexity
- Camera off
- Carrot and stick
- CCR Collaborative Community Rituals
- Change is the normal state.
- Change work gradually
- Changing governance
- Changing paradigms
- Coming first depends on luck
- Conventional IT project management culture is toxic.
- Corporate astrology
- Course scheduled: the popular New Ways of Consulting is back!
- Crazy goals
- Create headroom
- Crossing the Streams: ITSM and DevOps (an IT post)
- Cynefin 3D updated
- Cynefin and Standard+Case
- Decyphering Dr Vu
- Deming’s 94%
- Developing managers
- Diversity at work
- Do your head in
- Don’t believe anyone who knows what to do
- Don’t call it Agile
- Don’t do big-bang restructures
- Don’t follow billionaires
- Don’t let anyone tell you culture change is easy
- Don’t overdo defining values
- Don’t stay silent
- Double diamond thinking
- Embrace failure of Agile
- Enterprise agile advancement in a clothing manufacturer
- Estimates are not a commitment
- Ethos
- Even SAFe
- Firing people is always a last resort
- Fix the system not the individual
- Flexibility for family. Treating staff like people.
- Flipping the strategic hierarchy
- Flux
- Frederic Laloux
- Free online training for all you folk at home
- Getting through 2020
- Going to the gemba
- Good managers play golf
- Gut instinct
- Hap! hap! happy!!!
- Hold space
- Hooray for human error
- How can remote working be as good as co-location?
- How fast is Agile?
- How to advance in a VUCA world
- How to find good people
- How to help managers be vulnerable
- How we make a difference
- In defence of managers
- In praise of virtual whiteboards and stickies
- In the crisis, reflect and advance
- Information for different reasons
- Instant Agility Remote Virtual WFH Barbeque Event
- Instant Agility Switch – turn it on!
- It’s a VUCA world
- It’s not about the patterns
- It’s not all about greed
- It’s not optional
- It’s not what we do, it’s why
- It’s not women who should be adapting
- Judging colleagues
- Knowledge management is an activity not a tool
- Leading me to change and in a miraculous way.
- Let the buyer be accountable
- Limitations of the industrial manufacturing paradigm, including Lean and ToC
- Lizard Brain
- Make better decisions
- Make the workplace fertile
- Maker schedule
- Management is a specific skill
- Management by Objectives.
- Manager vs Leader
- Managers are victims too
- Maori better ways of working
- Meet Mr Teal
- Merry Christmas from Teal Unicorn
- Models aren’t useful.
- Money for nothing: consulting without answers.
- Multiple mistakes mean incompetence
- Mutual benefit
- Never judge a decision by its outcome
- New ways and women
- Nobody knows what change may come
- Numbers are an indicator that the manager should act.
- On coaching
- One step back and two forward: the J-curve
- Open Management
- Optimising the remote/office mix
- Organisational Change Management
- Our Four or More training offering: your own private course from Teal Unicorn
- Our great results
- Our latest book out now!
- Our latest video: Dr Vu goes to work
- Our new theme for 2021 is S&T Happens: Surviving and Thriving in a VUCA world
- Our secret formula
- Our success stories with new ways of working.
- Our theoretical foundations
- Parenting
- Pay the team
- People are not a cost
- People shortage? What people shortage ?
- Performance reviews
- Personnel management vs work management
- Philosophy of work
- Planning and direction in the zone of uncertainty
- Planning horizons in a VUCA world
- Precious time back through very human agile thinking
- Predatory consulting
- Proud of your work
- Pull decisions up to the closest level to the work
- Real and effective
- Recruitment
- Rediscovering and restoring humanity
- References: what does good look like?
- Reflections on 2021
- Remote work? I don’t think so
- Reorganising everything to new ways of working
- Responsibility for failure
- Reunify the transendentals
- Revising VUCA: complicated not complex
- Rise above the treeline
- Rob in a webinar on new ways
- S&T Happens book now out in paperback and Kindle
- Sailing stormy seas
- Self-organising through the J-curve to better performance
- Setting WIP limits
- Share the rewards
- Simple work is anything but
- Slack in the system.
- Some notes on online training
- Standardised work
- Standardising work in Agile
- Start with headroom
- Stealth remote working
- Study <-> Practice <-> Experience <-> Learn <-> Share
- Successful training in Vietnam
- Survival of the fittest
- Talking about the dream
- Teal is Real
- The agile Manager book in Vietnamese
- The cause is not human error
- The dysfunctions of transformation
- The future is Open
- The jeopardy of company values.
- The limits on serving
- The most important thing a manager does
- The needs of the team
- The new ways are an advance not an alternative
- The next major incident won’t look like the last one
- The old approximations of reality don’t work any more
- The only good recruiting technique is a 90 day trial
- The paradox of tolerance
- The successful got lucky
- The Summoner
- The work renaissance
- The world is always a complex adaptive system
- There is too much secrecy at work
- Times are changing
- Times they are a-changing… fast
- To support diversity at work we must limit diversity.
- Transformation of large organisations takes many years
- Translations of Cherry
- Truth, beauty, and goodness
- Turn failure from a cost to an asset
- Two kanban boards
- Two new live interactive online courses from Teal Unicorn
- Two steps toward Teal
- Two thirds
- Two worldviews of improvement
- Value comes from our interactions
- Video on Managing Agile Teams
- Video on planning in uncertainty
- Virtual vs real
- Viva la Resignation
- VUCA hype
- Wabisabi
- We can be better
- We can’t agree what agility actually is.
- We don’t need a test function any more
- We don’t need another hero
- We finally hold our book
- We miss you too Su
- We need an agile approach when dealing with any crises
- We need managers.
- We shouldn’t measure humans
- Welcome to Unicorn Thoughts
- What are the odds?
- What do they say to us?
- What do we mean by “Laloux’s model”?
- What got you here won’t get you there
- What is a consultant?
- What is the one thing to change about people
- What stakeholders?
- What’s new about new ways?
- When people don’t flourish
- Where is Agile going?
- Where is Teal being done?
- Who needs managers when we are agile?
- Who should a scrummaster report to?
- Why diversity
- Why do we still need a project?
- Why I don’t like videos
- Will automation take jobs?
- Work from the heart
- Work goes on
- Work is never an excuse for abuse
- Work is political
- Work teams aren’t sports superstars
- Work to live, dont live to work.
- Work-life balance
- Work, people, results, pick one.
- Working more efficiently, and happily
- You can manage what you can’t measure.
- You can’t fix overburden while you’re overburdened