Product Agility The Power of Quitting & Org Change Pitfalls (with Cliff Hazell, Ex Spotify and Co-Creator of Flight Levels)
Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Kalus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with interest in organisational change will love.
This is the second of 3 episodes that Cliff and I recorded on various topics.
In this one, we speak about Organisational change pitfalls Agile Coaches and other change agents can avoid. The power of quitting in a Product environment (as well as in our personal lives). Putting the parts back together rather than being reductionist (through critiquing the words holistic and systemic and a whole lot more (see below).
Should you want to skip to a specific point, this is probably useful (if chapters are not your thing)
- 02:28 - How Cliff tuned into his biases
- 03:24 - Diversity and Bias training challenges
- 05:34 - Cultural norming
- 06:25 - Ben overshares (probably)
- 08:41 - Why it's hard for some when moving from Project to Product delivery
- 09:23 - What were Cliff's experiences of individual change at Spotify
- 11:03 - How a 4 x 4 matrix can help explain change resistance
- 15:00 - Being courageously curious with the Left-Hand column technique
- 17:24 - Why doe's being rational and applying reasoning not work when you want it to
- 18:19 - How to create an appropriate course of action to tackle an organisational problem
- 19:46 - Why you should read Humble Enquiry and judge people on their intentions
- 21:43 - Tips to avoid failure with organisational restructures
And all this!
🧔🏻SA to Sweden was a cultural change that affected cliff, it led to people thinking his behaviour was abnormal.
🧔🏻He found his understanding of the world to be incomplete as it was only through his lens
🧔🏻What are some of the challenges Cliff has found with bias training?
🧔🏻Doe's just knowing our biases mean we can overcome them?
🧔🏻What is the link between lions and whether we believe someone could be a great leader or software developer
🧔🏻Cultural norming, how does this make individual adaptation hard?
🧔🏻Can we say that biases or always
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Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
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