Leadership on the other side of the fence
Through the last articles I investigated some of the studies and narratives about management and leadership, and how the West was lost to that particular style of management that can be …
Agile Lean Leadership appetizer
Since 2001 Scrum has seen widespread use in all kind of projects, especially around product development. In the larger perspective this has begun to flow together with the streams of …
How the West was lost #3, reclaiming
Is it really possible to reclaim the territory in our organizations that have been lost to neo-Taylorists? I am convinced that we can, and we will end this article with …
Course in Agile Lean Leadership
We, a group of Scandinavian Scrum Trainers, have created a set of courses and services in Agile Lean Leadership, where we generalize the Agile and Lean patterns found in Scrum …
How NOT to introduce Scrum and Agile! – 1
The most common way to fail in introducing Scrum is to call it Scrum, but to bastardize it beyond recognition. It can happen out of ignorance as well as with …
How the West was lost #2
The first article on this subject was a bit short and I would like to give some more background and detail. Before 1900 there was not much theory or anything about …
How the West was lost
The institutions in Western society are in a deep leadership crisis. The way governments, organizations and businesses manage their affairs obviously does not work in a sustainable way. An erosion …
Updated Agile Lean library
We are always looking out for new interesting write-ups, posts or video clips that explains different aspects of Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban – you name it. On our site we …
Explanation of Gemba
Gemba in it’s original Japanese meaning means “The Real Place”. In business the term is often used in contexts of decision making or improvement, taken to mean the place where …