Becoming a
high performance
organization
Agile | Design Thinking | Lean Startup |Conscious Leadership
Sylvain Mahe – Palo IT
Let’s break the ice
Who am I?
• Entreprise Agile and Innovation Coach at Palo IT, a boutique Innovation consultancy
• Publishing, Telcos, Industrial Property, Banking...
• Startup companies and MNCs
• Life Transformation Coach
• Seeker, aspiring dancer and cheese lover
Twitter: @mahe_sylvain
LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/pub/sylvain-mahe/2/275/8b0
“No problem can be solved from the same
level of consciousness that created it”
- Einstein
Episode 1
Urgency
Disruption
Disruption
It’s just the beginning
Survival
A new workforce
Happiness Suffering in the workplace
Source: Gallup survey
Faster time to market
Quality
Ability to accommodate change
Delight customers
Engaged employees
What do they need to stay relevant ?
Episode 2
Secret sauce
82%
83%
82%
82%
86%
86%
87%
92%
Source: 10th Annual State of Agile Survey, VersionOne 2016
Agile - Benefits
The Agile Manifesto
The Agile Manifesto
What is Agile?
Scrum
Scrum
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Prototyping
Lean Startup
Iterative product releases
Minimum Viable Product
Minimum Viable Product
The secret sauce: 3 magic ingredients
1/ Design thinking helps us come up with better ideas.
2/ Lean Startup helps us turn those ideas into business models that
work.
3/ Agile helps us deliver the product or service to market in a fast,
incremental way so that we get ongoing feedback, adapt and deliver
precisely what the customer wants.
Episode 3
Antibodies
Leading causes of failure
”“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
- Peter Drucker
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I came to see, in my time at IBM,
that culture isn't just one aspect
of the game, it is the game.
- Lou Gerstner. Chairman, IBM
Agile iceberg
Agile / Design
Thinking / Lean
Startup define
a culture
Culture
• Summer Meadow
Let’s play
Draw a beautiful summer
meadow with blue and red
flowers in green grass, some
cows and birds under a shining
sun.
Two sets or requirements
Draw a beautiful summer meadow with:
•10 blue flowers with 5 petals each
•5 blue flowers with 6 petals each
•13 red flowers with 6 petals each
•2 cows with 3 black spots
•1 cow with 5 black spots
•2 cows with 4 black spots
•2 birds to reside in the upper left corner
•3 blue butterflies
•3 birds in the middle
•1 sun to the right with 5 sun beams
•3 red butterflies
•40 blades of grass
Silos
Trust
We’re busy
The operating system is broken…
… it’s time to install a new one
Episode 4
Conscious leadership
as a way to reach
high performance
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“The culture of any organization is shaped by
the worst behaviour the leaders are willing to
tolerate.
- Gruenert and Whitaker
Leaders
Laloux’s model
Laloux’smodel
• In which color do you think Agile/Design Thinking/Lean Startup will
thrive ?
• Which color is your organization?
• Which color are you?
Let’s discuss
What are the attributes of leaders who
enable high performance?
People are resources resourceful
Manager Servant leader
What / How / Who Why / Vision
Control Delegation / Empowerment
I We
Focuses on structure and process Focuses on people
Practices Mindset /Values
Inspires fear Motivates and inspires
Push structure Pull structure
Commands Asks
Uses people Coaches / Develop people
Works with the status quo Challenges status quo
When I talk to managers, I get the feeling that they are important.
When I talk to leaders, I get the feeling that I am important.
Servant-leaders developing leaders,
not followers
5 tips to become a conscious leader
1. Take a honest look at yourself
2. Sharpen your questioning and listening skills
3. Connect with others
4. Create trust
5. Cultivate appreciation
Moving motivators
Moving motivators
Wrapping up
Rehumanizing
workplaces
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Be the change that you
wish to see in the world.
Thank you
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First they ignore you, then they
ridicule you, then they fight you,
and then you win.
Thank you

Becoming a high performance organization (Agile, Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Conscious Leadership) - Talk at SMU sept 2018