Book Titles

Sooner Safer Happier
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By Jonathan Smart

Year Published: 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1950508419
Categories: Agility, Happiness, Safety

168 Quotes Found

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Every organization is unique and is a complex adaptive system… There is no cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach.

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Quality should be built in rather than inspected in later.

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We want to optimize for value and tie to learning. Outcomes over output.

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…behavioral norms that are in an organization are the biggest lever in transforming ways of working.

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Transformation as a mandated program uses old ways of thinking to apply new ways of working.

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Not surprisingly, mandated change and mandated how trigger fear and resistance.

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Everyone fears changing habits that they’re used to and are comfortable with. Even the most most confident employees can suffer from imposter syndrome.

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This evolutionary tendency to avoid losses, even to obtain gains, further cements people’s desire to maintain the status quo.

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If old ways of behaving and thinking are used for new ways of working, people will not think for themselves; they will not improve; they will follow orders and wait for the next one.

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We all want to feel that we control our own lives, that we’re good at what we do, and that what we do matters. These are all intrinsic motivators.

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