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Agile teaches us to embrace failure as a learning opportunity. That doesn’t seem to be what the Agile elite leader community do when people fail at Agile.

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Darwin said “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”, right?

Actually Darwin didn’t say that nor mean it.

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What got you here won’t get you there. Watch all the old-school companies flailing: Boeing, Marks&Spencer…

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I really don’t get discussions about “aftermath”, “next”, or “new normal”.  Any sort of stability is far off.  The climatic, economic, health, social, and political crises have many years to run.

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Work is political.

It is no longer acceptable to treat work as a values-neutral place focused on the creation of value (for shareholders and incidentally customers).
Customers, partners, staff, and society at large all expect organisations to reflect their values.

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I’m still sure that consulting, coaching, and training are better in person. Virtual is adequate for most things. That’s not the same as optimal. Virtual is good for some things and better only for very few things.

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From time to time in the consulting business, you hear a variation on “You talk positively about Client X, but I heard it didn’t go so well for you”. Let’s talk about what good looks like in a consulting engagement.

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I don’t believe anyone who knows for sure what to do. I don’t mean “We should build an electric car”. That’s vision. I mean “We can cover the roof with solar cells”. That’s hubris. There only one way to know if that is practicable.

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