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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Sooner Safer Happier:

The organization needs to understand the reasons for being asked to improve ways of working, and those reasons need to appeal to people’s intrinsic motivators.

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Agility needs to emerge in an agile way.

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Sooner Safer Happier:

No one is exempt from choosing to improve, to be the best at being better.

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[Learning] anxiety is a threshold that has to be overcome in order to be willing to unlearn, relearn, and take action.

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…craft a why for change that people will buy and that is unique to your organization. And then repeat that why.

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You can’t take change apart, see how it works, swap a few bits, and put it all back together again. Change is emergent.

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Nail it before you scale it. Humans have a limited velocity to unlearn and relearn. You cannot force the pace of change.

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The key to success is to invite participation.

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You are never done at being the best at being better.

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The ultimate goal is to become a learning organization where both change improvement is continuous. Be the best at being better.

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