Organizational Design

Anti-Patterns to avoid:

  1. Information for decision-makers considering large consultancy firms’ Agile offering
  2. Information for decision-makers considering SAFe
  3. McKinsey Developer Productivity Review, by Daniel Terhorst-North
  4. The many times McKinsey has been embroiled in scandals
  5. McKinsey’s “Agile Transformation Office” is the Final Nail in the Coffin, by Scott Middleton
  6. Keep McKinsey Away from Biden’s Infrastructure Push, by Matt Stoller
  7. McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses, in NY Times
  8. McKinsey Advised Johnson & Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales, in NY Times
  9. Rep. Porter Questions McKinsey’s Global Managing Partner
  10. Big Consulting’s psychological trick revealed, by Robin Dymond
  11. How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility,  by Justin Peters
  12. You Don’t Want an “Agile Coach”​, by Howard Sublett
  13. ING improves on the so-called Spotify Model using LeSS, by Rowan Bunning
  14. Information for decision-makers considering large consultancy firms’ Agile offering

And more….

  1. On Productivity of Middlemen and Handovers
  2. The impact of artificial intelligence on growth and employment, by Ethan Ilzetzki and Suryaansh Jain
  3. Why an Agile Center of Excellence is a Really Bad Idea, by T. Cagley
  4. Cyber Vigilance is important. Spam. Plagiary. Impersonation. by Gene Gendel
  5. Big Consulting’s psychological trick revealed, by Robin Dymond
  6. How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility,  by Justin Peters
  7. 10 Reasons To Avoid Executive Leadership Coaches Like The Plague, by Chris Pearse
  8. How to Break Bad Management Habits Before They Reach The Next Generation of Leaders?, by Liz Lyle
  9. A Learning Perspective on Netflix’s Corporate Culture, by Joshua Kim
  10. Working at Netflix Sounds Absolutely Terrifying, by Maya Kosoff
  11. MONTE PYTHON SIMULATION: MISUNDERSTANDING MONTE CARLO, by Dan North
  12. The Defense Innovation Board wants to help the military recognize ‘agile BS’, by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
  13. Seeing system dynamics in organizational change: 7) incremental structural change, by Lv Yi
  14. Why do companies hire management consultants like McKinsey, Bain, & BCG?, by Yohan Albo
  15. Can Internal Auditing Become Agile? Seven Keys To Thinking The Unthinkable, by Steve Denning
  16. Lean Management Vs Modern Management, by https://thehypertextual.com
  17. The Many Dimensions of Change, by Don Edward Beck
  18. Mission Command: An Organizational Model for Our Time, by Stephen Bungay
  19. Crossing the river by feeling the stones, by Simon Wardley
  20. The journey to an agile organization at Zalando, by Stephanie Cadieux and Miriam Heyn
  21. Why Semco does not want your company to be like Semco, by Ian Borges
  22. “Just Say No” to Platitudes, by Daniel Mezick
  23. For Haier’s Zhang Ruimin, Success Means Creating the Future, by Zhang Ruimin
  24. Professionalism is more important than Regulation, by Dave West
  25. SALARY SURVEY OF SCRUM PROFESSIONALS 2017-2018 (download)
  26. Reinventing And Humanizing Management: How Agile And Beyond Budgeting Have Converged, by Steve Denning
  27. Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (in 70+ companies), by Lisa Gill
  28. Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership, by Ian Mitchell
  29. Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax, by Dave Snowden
  30. 4 Areas to Look When Agile Isn’t Working In Your Organization, by Todd Miller
  31. Leading vs. Managing in a Scrum Environment, by Jeff Sutherland
  32. For Tesla, ‘Production Hell’ Looks Like the Reality of the Car Business, by Neal Boudette
  33. Agile Transformation at UCAS, by https://www.emergn.com
  34. Real Agility…Not Fake Agile, by Tom Mellor
  35. Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning, by Chris Argyris
  36. An operating model for company-wide agile development, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder
  37. Executives and Safety – “Get it done” Individuals
  38. “It’s almost impossible” – Why is it necessary to start a journey into Agility with the redesign of the organization., by Ran Nyman and Wolfgang Steffens
  39. How to change thinking in the top management., by Ari Tikka
  40. How I Remade GE, by Jeffrey R. Immelt
  41. Billion-dollar mistake: How inferior IT killed Target Canada, by David Gewirtz
  42. Customs Failure “A Catastrophe” of IT Governance, by Sue Bushell (CIO)
  43. The enormous cost of IT project failure, on https://www.intheblack.com/
  44. Queensland Government Bans IBM from IT Contracts, by Robert N. Charette
  45. Anatomy of Qld Health IT disaster: IBM should never have been appointed, by Renai LeMay
  46. How Healthcare.gov could have saved billions of dollars and been delivered in 1/2 the time, by Robin Dymond
  47. After 12 billion pound healthcare IT failure, U.K. shows that governments must adopt Agile and have their own delivery organization, by Robin Dymond
  48. Driven away by hypocrisy: when endorsing a caring workplace backfires for leaders, by Alex Fradera
  49. How Damaging Is a Bad Boss, Exactly?, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman
  50. Strategies for Learning from Failure, by Amy C. Edmondson
  51. The Real Lessons From Kodak’s Decline, by Willy Shih
  52. ICYMI: Where Kodak Failed and Netflix Didn’t (a lesson in innovation), by https://online.sbu.ed
  53. How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com, by https://www.theguardian.com
  54. A business leader’s guide to agile, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Krish Krishnakanthan, Jeff Maurone, and Gayatri Shenai
  55. Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss, by Adam Bryant
  56. Gareth Morgan’s Organisational Metaphors, by Gareth Morgan
  57. All Cars Sold in Norway to be Electric by 2025, by McKinley Corbley
  58. The Shocking Truth about Firefighting in I.T. Organizations!, by Jurgen De Smet
  59. The 25/25 Rule: Achieving More by Doing Less, by Boaz Ronen, Thomas G. Lechler and Edward A. Stohr
  60. Assessment: Do You Know How Bureaucratic Your Organization Is?, by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
  61. Descaling Organizations with LeSS, by Viktor Grgić
  62. What’s happening at IBM? (It’s dying), by Robert X. Cringely
  63. IBM Just Committed Cultural and Creative Suicide, by  Geoffrey James
  64. Design Thinking Needs To Think Bigger, by Steve Vassallo
  65. Creating Simple Rules for Complex Decisions, by Jongbin JungConnor ConcannonRavi ShroffSharad Goe, lDaniel G. Goldstein
  66. Applying Sociocracy 3.0 Patterns for Implementing Agile Practices, by Ben Linders
  67. Double Loop Learning in Organizations, by Chris Argyris
  68. Spreading Scrum through the enterprise, by Christina Cardoza
  69. An operating model for company-wide agile development, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder
  70. No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge, by Katie Hope
  71. Neuroleadership – lots of old-fashioned psychology, very little neuroscience
  72. How Aligned Is Your Organization? by Jonathan Trevor and Barry Varcoe
  73. Systems Thinking, Organizational Change and Agency: A Practice Theory Critique of Senge’s Learning Organization, by Raymond Caldwell
  74. Coordination Chaos, by GOSEI
  75. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfield
  76. How Amazon innovates in ways that Google and Apple can’t, by Timotny Lee
  77. Re-Translating Lean from Its Origin, by Jun Nakamuro
  78. The Power Matrix, by Bonita Roy
  79. ING’s agile transformation, by “Interview McKinsey Quarterly, 2017”.  Youtube:Agile way of working at ING Netherlands
  80. Fortune 500 firms in 1955 vs. 2014; 88% are gone, and we’re all better off because of that dynamic ‘creative destruction’, by Mark J. Perry
  81. Forget unicorns — investors are looking for ‘cockroach’ startups now, by Oscar Williams-Grut
  82. A Brief History of Management, by Bonnitta Roy
  83. Functional versus Unit Organizations, by Steven Sinofsky
  84. To Agility and Beyond, by Bob Galen
  85. 10 Convincing Reasons to Consider Servant Leadership, According to Research, by Marcel Schwantes
  86. Google’s Insane Approach to Management Could Transform Your Company, by Marcel Schwantes
  87. Being Agile in a Waterfall World, by Jason Coghlan 
  88. Navy scuttles sailors’ enlisted rating titles in huge career shake-up, by Mark D. Faram and Sam Fellman
  89. The End of the Hierarchy Is Not the End of the Manager, Part 2, by Nicolas Lochet
  90. The End of the Hierarchy Is Not the End of the Manager, Part 1, by Nicolas Lochet
  91. Teaching Social Intelligence and How It Relates to Agile, by Yvette Francino
  92. Push vs Pull in Agile Adoptions, by Daniel Mezick
  93. How To Make The Whole Organization Agile,by Steve Denning
  94. Informed Consent Workshop with Craig Larman, by Markus Gartner
  95. The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas McGregor
  96. Systems Thinking: Seeing System Dynamics, by C. Larman and B. Vodde
  97. What I Learned at Toyota, by Jeff Sutherland
  98. An Introduction to Systems Thinking and Wicked Problem Solving, by Tom Wujec
  99. How Agile Can Remedy a Bad System by Clinton Keith (F-22 and F-35 software designer)

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