Surprisability - AgileEE 2017
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In the past we’ve built businesses and organisations to last. We were afraid. We needed predictability to feel safe. Now we have the confidence to grow businesses that offer less safety yet more creativity, serendipity and fun. We foster the surprisability of organisations: Our ability to grow from surprises, to rise strong from falling. This allows us to be daring and brave. Which in turn fosters: Our ability to surprise markets, our customers, our partners, our competitors. We’ve learned to surf the waves of complexity, to steer our ship safely through the storms. Now we are the storm, we’re causing the waves. Olaf will take you through the organisational capabilities that increase surprisability: A clear sense of identity (we know who we are). A clear sense of purpose (we know what we want). Freedom. We are powerful beings, able to make good decisions. Agility. challenging how we do things by focusing on why we do them. Presence. letting go of anger and guilt from the past and anxiety of the future. Courage in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
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Agile World - Surprisability
In the past we’ve built businesses and organisations to last. We were afraid. We needed predictability to feel safe.
Now we have the confidence to grow businesses that offer less safety yet more creativity, serendipity and fun.
We foster the surprisability of organisations: Our ability to grow from surprises, to rise strong from falling. This allows us to be daring and brave. Which in turn fosters: Our ability to surprise markets, our customers, our partners, our competitors.
We’ve learned to surf the waves of complexity, to steer our ship safely through the storms. Now we are the storm, we’re causing the waves.
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- A clear sense of purpose (we know what we want).
- Freedom. We are powerful beings, able to make good decisions.
- Agility. challenging how we do things by focusing on why we do them.
- Presence. letting go of anger and guilt from the past and anxiety of the future.
- Courage in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
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“We rock when we’re rocked!”. Mindful, successful, messy, elegant, free and full of joy.
A new aspiration for great organisations: to be able to grow from surprises, to rise strong from falling. Daring and brave, we surprise others.
This keynote is about creating organisations that keep their competition awake at night while their people are enjoying making ever new waves.
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Agil ist ein Weg, kein Ziel oder Zustand. In unserer sich immer schneller verändernden Welt werden Überraschungen immer häufiger. Wir haben die Wahl: Wir können darunter leiden. Zerbrechen wir daran? Wachsen wir damit? Oder sind es wir, die überraschen?
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Visualisierungen helfen uns, im Alltag dort hinzuschauen, wo wir sonst etwas übersehen, wir uns unsicher fühlen oder wo es wehtut. Visualisierung sehen wir alle, und gemeinsam sind wir mutiger und aufmerksamer! Warum sind Visualisierungen effektiv? Welche Tools sind für welche Situationen geeignet? Wir stellen verschiedene Werkzeuge und Tools vor, die ein gemeinsames Handlungsbewusstsein erzeugen. Wir machen uns bewusst, was gute Visualisierungen in unserem Geist bewirken. Einige davon probieren wir gleich aus.
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Trust is a subjective quality of a situation. It’s messy, situational and contextual. How can we make sense of it? How can we improve it? And: what impact would that have? Take away practical answers to these questions. Olaf boldly labeled himself the Trust Artist three years ago, starting a journey of curious discovery while helping to increase trust and confidence in people and systems. Now he’s ready to share what he’s learned. Integrating common sense, neurobiology and complexity science, experience how to work with trust.
Trust is often explained as something hard to build and easy to lose. I have found a more helpful perspective. We always have trust: I may trust you to do as you say, or trust you to lie to me - both are qualities of a situation and a relationship.
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Confidence and how that effects choices we make, how we show up, how much of our creative potential we bring to work.
How culture can encourage confidence or dampen it, and how leadership choices set examples and boundaries for the choices of others.
Last but not least, how trust leads to clarity of intent - and how clarity of intent is a necessary condition for clarity of design.
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Conway’s law states that every system is as great as the organisation that created it. We want our systems to have quality on all levels. We want them to be functional, performant, usable and useful. And we want them to be successful. How do we create organisations which reliably create awesome software, delighting customers?
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- 4. raise your hand if you think you are NORMAL.
- 5. now raise your hand if you think…
- 8. expectations
- 9. what surprised you today? what did you learn? what kind of … is that …? and… what difference does that make?
- 12. our ability to grow from surprises surprise competition Surprisability
- 13. complexity
- 14. cc: pcgn7 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/21204781@N07 rank and privilege
- 15. awareness
- 16. your thinking is limiting your ability to be surprised.
- 17. labeling
- 18. identity
- 19. identity
- 20. identity
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- 22. identity
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- 35. Photo by pasukaru76 - Creative Commons Attribution License http://www.flickr.com/photos/38451115@N04 Created with Haiku Deck CHOICE
- 36. real options options have value. options expire. never commit early unless You Know Why.
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