Until not too long ago, the second half of the 1800s, all business was like playing Connect Four. The playing field was known, strategies were simple and if you could see a couple of moves ahead you would do well. This was the realm of bakers, farmers, tailors and fishermen.
Then came along the Industrial Revolution and the game changed. Over the course of 1 or 2 generations the game changed from Connect Four to Chess. It was a completely different game. Mom & pop[...]
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The dust is finally starting to settle on Stoos Connect. What a day it was. 20+ lightning talks, 75 local participants, 24 remote viewing locations between San Francisco and Melbourne and another 100 or so remote viewers. Everything about it blew my mind. I am looking to do a retrospective about the day in a week. So here are my observations and hope you will add yours.
Interest
Interest was and is extremely high. We probably had between 400-600 participants and a line-up[...]
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This morning I was told one of the students in a storytelling course I ran passed away. She died of a heart attack while on holiday. Now I did not know her very well, I only trained her for a few hours, but it still got to me. She was nice and outgoing with a bubbly personality. Someone you take an instant liking to. And more importantly she was about my age. Somewhere in her thirties probably.
The Drive Workshop is a workshop that is based on and developed in cooperation with Daniel Pink, the author of the book: . The tagline of the workshop is “Using autonomy, mastery and purpose to transform your organization and yourself” and that is exactly what I love about the workshop. Instead of rehashing the concepts of the book, the purpose of the workshop is to create an action plan on how to use the concepts in the book to, surprise surprise, transform your organization and[...]
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In april 2008 I got one of my worst assignments of my entire career. Or so I thought at the time. I did not find out until way after the fact it was the best. But I digress. My assignment was to help a client fix a bug in a small, not too important application. Not a dream job by any stretch of the imagination, but made worse, much worse, when I finally had the code installed. To call it badly written code would be a grave insult to badly[...]
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Over the past 2 years I have been reading, thinking and working a lot with culture, leadership, organisational design and storytelling. It was not until a week or so ago that I realised just how similar some of the ideas are. Especially the employee engagement model Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose from by Daniel Pink, the culture levels 3-5 from David Logan and friends and the Control, Competence and Clarity Leader-Leader model as developed by David Marquet in .
Now this is not to say that they basically rehashed the same[...]
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