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:

It’s not about inflicting sameness on every team. In order to maximize outcomes, the approach to organizational agility cannot be cookie cutter.

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…organizations often start with the tooling because that’s easiest… It is harder to start with people, to unlearn existing behaviors and relearn new ones, yet this is the biggest lever for better outcomes.

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If there is no coupling, a high level of mastery, and a servant leader culture, then teams, within minimal viable guardrails and with strategy alignment, can be more autonomous.

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…acknowledge the reality that context is unique and does not optimize for outcomes in context.

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A framework is adaptable if a team can inspect and change its way of working entirely, not just how it’s working within a set of prescriptive practices.

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Frameworks should be treated as a departure point, not a destination. Learn from the bodies of knowledge, then continuously inspect and adapt…

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Learn from everyone. Copy everyone. Optimize to context within minimal viable guardrails.

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VOICE stands for Value and Principles, Outcomes and Purpose, Intent-Based Leadership, Coaching and Support, and Experimentation.

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Leaders go first, role modeling desired behavior with a clear employee engagement model so that everyone has a way to be heard and a way to influence and shape their own destiny.

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Coaching provides support, guidance, and encouragement; helps others avoid bumps; and reduces fear.

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