Winning is Losing
Can you remember a time when you won ? A game or perhaps it was something less obvious, your idea was the one that was implemented and used. It felt [...]
Learning Minute – Honouring No to Create Agile Culture
One of the more obvious differences between our old waterfall, hierarchical, boss driven cultures and an Agile Culture is how we manage differences. In the old cultures saying ‘No’ was [...]
Learning Minute – Culture Power
The Power of Culture Organisation and the culture they bring lift groups of people to punch above their weight and achieve outcomes they could not achieve on their own”Laloux – [...]
Creating Collaboration & Autonomy
One of the big reasons why I started Deeply Agile is that the processes and concepts around Agile just don’t seem to be enough to shift people & spaces out [...]
Shifting into Agile Culture – Tips & Tricks (Stop Advocating)
When I do talks around creating an Agile Culture shift I will go through the fundamental mental models and belief systems that underpin the old culture and then a learning, [...]
Unilateral Control isn’t Restricted to Leaders…
A re-post from vernavanschaik.com. We tend to think of command and control (unilateral control) as something that only leaders live. The language we use re-in forces this belief, especially as [...]
Lessons from Inside the Leadership Lab
Another blog taken from my personal website (vernavanschaik.com) and written in early Feb of 2017, when Standard Bank’s internal Servant Leadership Lab had really started to get going. The lessons [...]