Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D. Michael Gothe - Safe to Fail Experiments
Michael Gothe is an Agile Organizational Coach at Crisp in Stockholm, Sweden. He has 20+ years of experience in building high-performance team-based Agile organizations and has worked with large multi-national/cultural organizations and start-up companies. Michael is passionate about transforming businesses to become truly Agile organizations that create fantastic value for customers and are an inspiring place for people to work. He also loves capturing the moment through photography, lives close to nature outside Stockholm, and is a proud father of three.
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A Few Quotes From This Episode
- "I don’t think there is a formal study of or body of knowledge about 'Agile leadership.' I think it’s about leading in complexity."
- "The key to success is learning. And the biggest hindrance for learning is when you think you know."
- "So as a leader, you first need to kind of shift from a 'know it all' to 'learn it all' approach." (attributed to Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella)
- "In Agile, you work with creating faster feedback loops and high-quality feedback loops. You want to have both quantitative and qualitative data."
Resources Mentioned In This Episode
- Blog: Crisp
- Upcoming Event/Learning Opportunity: Leading Complexity
- Documentary: Atari: Game Over
- Book: Deliberately Developmental Organization by Kegan and colleagues
- Website: The Agile Manifesto
- Book: Empowered: Ordinary People Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Cagan and Jones
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