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:

Human systems experience the loss of information and things will start to creep back if your foot is taken off the gas.

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In order to increase agility, in order to optimize for the fast flow of safe value, work and the system of work needs to be descaled.

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An organization is a network of interdependent services. Therefore the descaling efforts should include working to break dependencies, not only to manage them.

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As the organization scales agility by descaling the work and the system of work, it is important to ensure that teams with high autonomy also have high alignment.

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It is a common learning to miss the middle and need to back later… The pressurized middle should be explicitly supported in the move from traditional…

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People in the pressurized middle have a very important role, and that role is no longer command and control or detailed order-giver.

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If members of a leadership team are not prepared to adopt the principles and practices that they expect their followers to adopt, success will be limited.

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Middle managers are critical enablers as servant leaders, coaching their teams in continuous improvement alignment to outcomes and being coached.

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There is no one size fits all for organizational agility. There is no silver bullet. There is no One Way, no Agile-in-a-box that optimizes outcomes in all contexts.

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Interventions are irreversible. Like adding milk to coffee, they cannot be undone. People don’t forget.

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