The Agile Wire Surviving vs Thriving in an Agile Organization with Veronica Steward
We covered a lot of topics with Veronica! Here are some of the themes from our conversation:
Life coaching
Friday night every day at work
Survive and thrive
No such thing as strategic planning
Comfortable with the unknown
Thinking fast and slow
Upper brain vs lower brain thinking
Energy
Business schools
Medicine 2.0 vs 3.0
Shark tank
Orgs and survival and culture and valuation
Cost of scrum teams
Household ownership and accountability and company ownership and accountability
Does control kill creativity?
Gamblers
You come to Vegas, you will lose money, but what did you learn (company analogy)
Product Development is probabilistic, not deterministic
Thriving - holistic and transparency
Tesla - optimizes for time with high level of transparency
Deliver frequently
Employee experience
Great resignation
Time is important for companies, but also for employees!
Recession
Is survival mode appropriate now? Is it prudent?
Stock market - buy when stocks are down
Companies - invest when times are tough
Pragmatic people will be pragmatic
Experimenters will always be experimenting
Change rates and energy
5th discipline - rubber band effect
Personality profiles - strengths finder, DISC
GC index
Marcus Buckingham (strengths finder)
Talent but no joy
What’s the solution - balance!
Surviving in 2023 - people who think different
Most of us collect a paycheck and are detached from ownership mentality (shark tank)
As startups grow, ownership mentality fades, and thriving shifts to surviving
Lack of financial intelligence transfers into work
Layoffs
Very few people in an org understand why the layoffs are actually happening
Parenting and analogy to leadership
I’m learning every single day because I only know what I know
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