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When the expectation and authority to speak is proportional to someone’s position in the power hierarchy, everybody loses.

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This is a useful resource for one of the primary issues when creating a psychologically safe workplace: bullying.

The only thing I’d change is the messaging

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Dave Snowden wrote this post about Estuarine Mapping back in October last year, but I was too busy to read it properly until now.  It’s important. Reading Dave’s stuff is heavy going but rewarding. There are insights here on how we all will think about change now that we accept and understand the complex nature of the world.

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For me, there are four levels of organisation

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Chair and CEO of client:
“My staff messaged me to say it’s lucky I’m away on business because they got so much solved in your workshops. Yes, I have removed myself from the process because I see I am the bottleneck.”

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Cherry to client: you do it like this

why not do it like this? (Cross functional team)

It’s wonderful to watch her work, and to watch the minds blown.

Amid much debate over the usefulness of Scrum, it’s useful to ask where can Scrum *not* be used?  If it’s hard to define what something is good for, it may be easier to define what it isn’t.

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When we look at Cynefin, it’s tempting to suggest that in Clear or Complicated work, we can optimise for efficiency, with a simple linear model.

We must remember that Cynefin is situational, and the situation can change at any moment.
Optimising for efficiency not agility is a mistake in a VUCA world.

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I’m way behind on translating some of Cherry’s best gems posted on Facebook, but here’s one I felt compelled to share:

Goodhart’s Law: When a measurement becomes a goal , it immediately is no longer a good measurement.

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This.

“assessing people amounts to quantifying a relationship between unknown, usually unknowable things.”

Stop. Measuring. Humans.