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Interview: Gene Kim Speaks with A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker

March 1, 2022 by Gene Kim 1 Comment

The following is an interview between Gene Kim and Matt K. Parker, author of the newly released book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations. You can watch the video of the interview here. Gene Kim: Matt, good seeing you. By the way, congratulations on the release of your new book, A Radical Enterprise. Matt K. Parker: Thanks, Gene. It's good to see you too. Kim: Oh my gosh, it's so good seeing you. By the way, I got to tell you how much I enjoyed your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Radical Enterprise, Leadership, Organizational Change, Workplace Culture Tagged With: a radical enterprise, Gene Kim, interview, leadership, matt k parker

The Four Imperatives of Radical Collaboration

February 22, 2022 by Matt K. Parker Leave a Comment

The Four Imperatives of Radical Collaboration

In this adapted excerpt from the forthcoming book A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations by Matt K. Parker, we explore the four imperatives of radical collaboration. Today, the world of work is haunted by disengagement, mistrust, and meaninglessness. It is plagued with the attendant economic consequences of low productivity, performance, and innovation. The source of this plague is widely known yet rarely addressed, and its image is softened and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Radical Enterprise, Leadership, Organizational Change, Workplace Culture Tagged With: four imperatives, leadership, organizational change, workplace culture

Disruption of Change: A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants

January 3, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif.  Disruption of change is the balance of business process impact and complexity of change. Often organizations will attempt to take on too much change at once versus starting small, learning, and then scaling. Also, the number of individuals impacted is a factor, but not the primary … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership Tagged With: consultants, devops enterprise forum, Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants, leadership

Dependency: Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants

January 3, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif.  Dependency relates to understanding the business differentiation of the outcomes and also the intent for establishing internal capability. The focus will be on understanding how critical the business outcomes are to your strategy and when you have critical needs. Then, you are going … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership Tagged With: consultants, DevOps Enterprise Forum Paper, leader, Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants, leadership

Accountability: A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants

January 3, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post has been adapted from the A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif.  This post of the Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants series focuses on accountability, whether you have established clear ownership of the consulting engagement outcome, and whether you have put in place mechanisms for validating that the desired outcome is achieved. Below are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership Tagged With: consultants, DevOps Enterprise Forum Paper, Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants, leadership

A Leader’s Guide to Working with Consultants

January 3, 2022 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

This post has been adapted from the A Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants paper by Josh Atwell, Elizabeth Donaldson, John Esser, Ron Forrester, Ben Grinnel, Jason Hobbs, Courtney Kissler, and Jessica Reif.  Every year, thousands of executives seek to reinvent their companies through organizational transformation, and every year thousands of executives are disappointed by the results. According to a McKinsey report, just 26% of leaders say the transformation efforts they are familiar with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Leadership Tagged With: consultants, DevOps Enterprise Forum Paper, forum paper, Leader's Guide to Working with Consultants, leadership

Six Papers for DevOps Transformation Leaders

August 17, 2021 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

Mythbusting DevOps in the Enterprise Addressing Culture and Leadership Aspects during Transforming The DevOps movement has been primarily driven by practitioners, which is why we’ve ended up with such success at the practice level. As success and awareness have risen, we’ve now seen new challenges and questions around the path to success and applicability for larger organizations. Some have done this very well, others are struggling, and others yet have no idea where to start. This paper focuses … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DevOps Community, DevOps Enterprise Forum Guidance Papers, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Organizational Change Tagged With: bold moves you can make, devops leadership, devops transformation, digital transformation, expanding pockets of greatness, individual contributors, leadership, mythbusting devops in the enterprise, tactics for leading change, the cornerstone for winning

Playbook to Bust Bureaucracy

August 3, 2021 by Mark Schwartz 1 Comment

So, you’re in an organization, running up against bureaucratic impediments when you try to do what you’re pretty sure is the right thing. Perhaps you’re leading a digital transformation and your company’s bureaucracy is resisting change, fighting to lock in ways of doing things that belong to the days before the Paleolithic era. You’re up against a vast leviathan of a bureaucracy. What should you do? Like many business and technology authors, I’m going to tell you a bunch of stuff based on my … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Leadership, Organizational Change, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy, Workplace Culture Tagged With: bureaucracy, delicate art of bureaucracy, leadership, mark schwartz, organizational culture

How to Fix Bureaucracy

August 3, 2021 by Mark Schwartz Leave a Comment

This post is an excerpt from Mark Schwartz's The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy.  There are three things we must do to eliminate bureaucracy’s Kafkaesque aspects. We must make it lean by removing waste and shrinking lead times. We must make it capable of learning; that is, changing as the environment changes and as better ways are found to accomplish goals. And we must make it enabling—that is, helpful as a way to get things done rather than a no-saying, gatekeeping, troll-controlled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Organizational Change, The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy, Workplace Culture Tagged With: bureaucracy, delicate art of bureaucracy, leadership, mark schwartz, organization design

Technological Maestros: Characteristics of Innovative Leaders

May 21, 2021 by Gene Kim 3 Comments

In Episode 17 and Episode 18 of The Idealcast, I was blown away by Dr. Ron Westrum's notion of Technological Maestros, a definition and list of characteristics for a leader that resonates deeply with me. First, let's look at Dr. Westrum's definition of a technological maestro. This is a term that is used in history of technology a lot. First of all, you're dealing with somebody who has very high energy, that's critical. The second thing is they know what questions to ask. The third thing is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, The Idealcast, Workplace Culture Tagged With: business leadership, leadership, ron westrum, technological maestro, the idealcast

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