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Engagement and results can grow when people are set free to choose, decide, and take responsibility If you want to improve your organization, get more value out of your …
On the Road to Freedom – It sucks Being the little Guy
Recent events in the world seem to confirm that power is what matters and that intimidation, exploitation, or even abuse is all right as long as you are on the …
The Ritual Rain Dance around the Annual Budget
Over the last few months, I have spent some time understanding the concept of Beyond Budgeting (BB) and its relationship to what we call Agile Lean Leadership (ALL) – creating …
The Age-long Tension between Hierarchy and Human Freedom
Examining the roots and consequences of power-based hierarchy and the alternatives We are opening the Webinar season on 2024-01-31 at 19:00 CET, 1 PM EST, with the first in the …
The Case for Freedom and Responsibility in Organizations
50+ years ago Janis Joplin sang: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”. She was a wild and tragic figure looking for freedom, but never found it. She …
Article: A Lesson in Engagement
This is the story of a journey of many months through unknown territory together with a couple of departments in the Danish Health Care system. Over this long, involuntary course …
FREE WORKSHOP: Biting the Agile Bullet – Help us show Value for Managers
Wednesday, April. 27 7 PM CET. Duration: 1 hour Facillitators: Kurt Nielsen, Vibeke Christensen and Paul Norton Scrum and Agile thinking is being applied in many types of organizations, producing …
Article: The Challenge of the Traditional Hierarchy
Written by Kurt Nielsen. Originally published by Awesome Agile through Medium. As long as people are reasonably comfortable, the aversion of risk will be a much stronger gravitational force than …
A lady Lost and Found – Summer reflections
This article was originally posted on LinkedIn on August 3rd, by Kurt Nielsen. During some of our training classes and other events, I have occasionally been challenged by the audience to …
New course addition to the catalogue: The Advanced Product Owner Course
Last month we held our first Scrum Master Advanced course, next up is another addition to the course catalogue, the corresponding Product Owner Advanced course. This training will be held …
FREE WEBINAR: ZEN and the ART of Intrinsic Motivation
Thurs. May 20. 2021, at 7:00 PM CET/ 1:00 PM East Coast, USA. Duration 1 hour Presenters: Paul Norton and Anne Due Broberg We shamelessly stole part of our title from …
Death of a Salesman?
Without sales no company can survive, so why is the Sales Professional so precarious an occupation? By rethinking sales management, is it possible to improve performance and create truly sustainable …
Hidden treasures of radical improvement – Intrinsic Motivation
In Douglas Adams’ brilliantly funny novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the computer “Deep Thought” was asked about the meaning of life. It considered the question for 7.5 million …
Getting started with Agile Customer Circles
Introduction The arguments in favor of developing a team approach to customer facing functions are compelling, but saying it one thing, doing it quite another; the magnitude of the change …
Pseudo Work in the Post Corona World
Den 3. juli 2020 var der en artikel i finans.dk, med titlen “Halvdelen af danskerne føler, at de laver ligegyldigt arbejde”, den handler om en undersøgelse foretaget af konsulenthuset Balisager …
Handling Sudden drops into Chaos
We are continuing our summer school 2020 in order to spread the knowledge about Scrum, Agile, Lean and other resilient patterns. The format is a short presentation of an interesting …
Management is Broken beyond Repair
The current management paradigm is broken beyond repair. As the 21st Century progresses it becomes increasingly clear that the top-down hierarchy of control based on power, known for centuries, doesn’t …
What have we learned from the Corona crisis? A trap
We are about to start opening up society again after working as if we were on another planet for two months using solely online tools. We have had to very …
The Road Back – from Chaos
In 1929 the German author, Erich Maria Remarque, wrote the novel “Der Weg Zurück” or “The Road Back”, about German soldiers trying to return to civilization after the nightmare and …
Being proactive in a world of chaos, new initiatives
We are entering the second month of Corona lockdown, with almost no ordinary activity, increasingly facing a world with little resemblance to the previous one. Inspired by the image above, …
Corona and Chaos
Sudden drops into Chaos It has been a month since the Prime Minister of Denmark (Mette Frederiksen) ordered the country to lock down. I was at a blues concert when …
Strange rings in the water after the Coronavirus
This week our media has made some observations, reflections and revelations of unusual situations and reactions which are worth noting and which I cannot avoid seeing from the perspective of …
General Stanley McChrystal: Team of Teams
General Stanley McChrystal (SMC), who from 2003 led the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq, wrote a book called “Team of Teams” in 2015 about his learnings in Iraq …
Situational Awareness and Maneuverability in Teams
In Denmark we have a phenomenon that we call “Black Sun”. It happens in the fall when thousands of starlings gather in the marshlands of Jutland and prepare for their …
Working the Agile way in Non-profit Organizations
Working the Agile way in non-profit Organizations Normally we think of agility as man’s best friend jumping through hoops and performing other tricks, however Agile is also a modern way …
