Anti-Patterns – NOT to follow:
- The many times McKinsey has been embroiled in scandals
- McKinsey’s “Agile Transformation Office” is the Final Nail in the Coffin, by Scott Middleton
- Keep McKinsey Away from Biden’s Infrastructure Push, by Matt Stoller
- McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for OxyContin Overdoses, in NY Times
- McKinsey Advised Johnson & Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales, in NY Times
- Rep. Porter Questions McKinsey’s Global Managing Partner
- Big Consulting’s psychological trick revealed, by Robin Dymond
- How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility, by Justin Peters
- You Don’t Want an “Agile Coach”, by Howard Sublett
- ING improves on the so-called Spotify Model using LeSS, by Rowan Bunning
- Information for decision-makers considering large consultancy firms’ Agile offering
And more….
- Why an Agile Center of Excellence is a Really Bad Idea, by T. Cagley
- Cyber Vigilance is important. Spam. Plagiary. Impersonation. by Gene Gendel
- Big Consulting’s psychological trick revealed, by Robin Dymond
- How McKinsey Helps Companies Avoid Responsibility, by Justin Peters
- 10 Reasons To Avoid Executive Leadership Coaches Like The Plague, by Chris Pearse
- How to Break Bad Management Habits Before They Reach The Next Generation of Leaders?, by Liz Lyle
- A Learning Perspective on Netflix’s Corporate Culture, by Joshua Kim
- Working at Netflix Sounds Absolutely Terrifying, by Maya Kosoff
- MONTE PYTHON SIMULATION: MISUNDERSTANDING MONTE CARLO, by Dan North
- The Defense Innovation Board wants to help the military recognize ‘agile BS’, by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
- Seeing system dynamics in organizational change: 7) incremental structural change, by Lv Yi
- Why do companies hire management consultants like McKinsey, Bain, & BCG?, by Yohan Albo
- Can Internal Auditing Become Agile? Seven Keys To Thinking The Unthinkable, by Steve Denning
- Lean Management Vs Modern Management, by https://thehypertextual.com
- The Many Dimensions of Change, by Don Edward Beck
- Mission Command: An Organizational Model for Our Time, by Stephen Bungay
- Crossing the river by feeling the stones, by Simon Wardley
- The journey to an agile organization at Zalando, by Stephanie Cadieux and Miriam Heyn
- Why Semco does not want your company to be like Semco, by Ian Borges
- “Just Say No” to Platitudes, by Daniel Mezick
- For Haier’s Zhang Ruimin, Success Means Creating the Future, by Zhang Ruimin
- Professionalism is more important than Regulation, by Dave West
- SALARY SURVEY OF SCRUM PROFESSIONALS 2017-2018 (download)
- Reinventing And Humanizing Management: How Agile And Beyond Budgeting Have Converged, by Steve Denning
- Components That Successfully Abolished Hierarchy (in 70+ companies), by Lisa Gill
- Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership, by Ian Mitchell
- Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax, by Dave Snowden
- 4 Areas to Look When Agile Isn’t Working In Your Organization, by Todd Miller
- Leading vs. Managing in a Scrum Environment, by Jeff Sutherland
- For Tesla, ‘Production Hell’ Looks Like the Reality of the Car Business, by Neal Boudette
- Agile Transformation at UCAS, by https://www.emergn.com
- Real Agility…Not Fake Agile, by Tom Mellor
- Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning, by Chris Argyris
- An operating model for company-wide agile development, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder
- Executives and Safety – “Get it done” Individuals
- “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
- How to change thinking in the top management., by Ari Tikka
- How I Remade GE, by Jeffrey R. Immelt
- Billion-dollar mistake: How inferior IT killed Target Canada, by David Gewirtz
- Customs Failure “A Catastrophe” of IT Governance, by Sue Bushell (CIO)
- The enormous cost of IT project failure, on https://www.intheblack.com/
- Queensland Government Bans IBM from IT Contracts, by Robert N. Charette
- Anatomy of Qld Health IT disaster: IBM should never have been appointed, by Renai LeMay
- How Healthcare.gov could have saved billions of dollars and been delivered in 1/2 the time, by Robin Dymond
- After 12 billion pound healthcare IT failure, U.K. shows that governments must adopt Agile and have their own delivery organization, by Robin Dymond
- Driven away by hypocrisy: when endorsing a caring workplace backfires for leaders, by Alex Fradera
- How Damaging Is a Bad Boss, Exactly?, by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman
- Strategies for Learning from Failure, by Amy C. Edmondson
- The Real Lessons From Kodak’s Decline, by Willy Shih
- ICYMI: Where Kodak Failed and Netflix Didn’t (a lesson in innovation), by https://online.sbu.ed
- How the Guardian successfully moved domain to www.theguardian.com, by https://www.theguardian.com
- A business leader’s guide to agile, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Krish Krishnakanthan, Jeff Maurone, and Gayatri Shenai
- Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss, by Adam Bryant
- Gareth Morgan’s Organisational Metaphors, by Gareth Morgan
- All Cars Sold in Norway to be Electric by 2025, by McKinley Corbley
- The Shocking Truth about Firefighting in I.T. Organizations!, by Jurgen De Smet
- The 25/25 Rule: Achieving More by Doing Less, by Boaz Ronen, Thomas G. Lechler and Edward A. Stohr
- Assessment: Do You Know How Bureaucratic Your Organization Is?, by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
- Descaling Organizations with LeSS, by Viktor Grgić
- What’s happening at IBM? (It’s dying), by Robert X. Cringely
- IBM Just Committed Cultural and Creative Suicide, by Geoffrey James
- Design Thinking Needs To Think Bigger, by Steve Vassallo
- Creating Simple Rules for Complex Decisions, by Jongbin JungConnor ConcannonRavi ShroffSharad Goe, lDaniel G. Goldstein
- Applying Sociocracy 3.0 Patterns for Implementing Agile Practices, by Ben Linders
- Double Loop Learning in Organizations, by Chris Argyris
- Spreading Scrum through the enterprise, by Christina Cardoza
- An operating model for company-wide agile development, by Santiago Comella-Dorda, Swati Lohiya, and Gerard Speksnijder
- No CEO: The Swedish company where nobody is in charge, by Katie Hope
- Neuroleadership – lots of old-fashioned psychology, very little neuroscience
- How Aligned Is Your Organization? by Jonathan Trevor and Barry Varcoe
- Systems Thinking, Organizational Change and Agency: A Practice Theory Critique of Senge’s Learning Organization, by Raymond Caldwell
- Coordination Chaos, by GOSEI
- Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfield
- How Amazon innovates in ways that Google and Apple can’t, by Timotny Lee
- Re-Translating Lean from Its Origin, by Jun Nakamuro
- The Power Matrix, by Bonita Roy
- ING’s agile transformation, by “Interview McKinsey Quarterly, 2017”. Youtube:Agile way of working at ING Netherlands
- 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
- Forget unicorns — investors are looking for ‘cockroach’ startups now, by Oscar Williams-Grut
- A Brief History of Management, by Bonnitta Roy
- Functional versus Unit Organizations, by Steven Sinofsky
- To Agility and Beyond, by Bob Galen
- 10 Convincing Reasons to Consider Servant Leadership, According to Research, by Marcel Schwantes
- Google’s Insane Approach to Management Could Transform Your Company, by Marcel Schwantes
- Being Agile in a Waterfall World, by Jason Coghlan
- Navy scuttles sailors’ enlisted rating titles in huge career shake-up, by Mark D. Faram and Sam Fellman
- The End of the Hierarchy Is Not the End of the Manager, Part 2, by Nicolas Lochet
- The End of the Hierarchy Is Not the End of the Manager, Part 1, by Nicolas Lochet
- Teaching Social Intelligence and How It Relates to Agile, by Yvette Francino
- Push vs Pull in Agile Adoptions, by Daniel Mezick
- How To Make The Whole Organization Agile,by Steve Denning
- Informed Consent Workshop with Craig Larman, by Markus Gartner
- The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas McGregor
- Systems Thinking: Seeing System Dynamics, by C. Larman and B. Vodde
- What I Learned at Toyota, by Jeff Sutherland
- An Introduction to Systems Thinking and Wicked Problem Solving, by Tom Wujec
- How Agile Can Remedy a Bad System by Clinton Keith (F-22 and F-35 software designer)
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