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Takeshi Yoshida
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Nov 8

Facilitating Healthy Storming

Some teams form and norm skipping storm, and consequently perform mediocrely. Other teams storm badly and norm chillingly with low team trust. The key is in facilitative leadership and in this Mental Model Dōjō community session we discussed the professional topic of how to help Agile teams, or any…

Coachtakeshi

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Facilitating Healthy Storming
Facilitating Healthy Storming
Coachtakeshi

8 min read


Nov 7

Better Teamwork with Synchronous & Asynchronous Communication

At the heart of the issue of post-COVID “back to office” is trust, or lack thereof, from management and the sense of disempowerment by the employees. Fair enough, nothing beats face-to-face interaction and there is valid cause for making in-office work back the norm. So as leaders, what can…

Coachtakeshi

10 min read

Better Teamwork with Synchronous & Asynchronous Communication
Better Teamwork with Synchronous & Asynchronous Communication
Coachtakeshi

10 min read


Sep 30

Fair Process — A Primer

INSEAD is big on “Fair Process”, a leadership mental model formulated by the creators of Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, and I am in that camp. Here’s a primer on what Fair Process is. Summarized in Kim and Mauborgne’s 2003 Harvard Business Review article, Fair Process…

Fairprocess

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Fair Process — A Primer
Fair Process — A Primer
Fairprocess

7 min read


Aug 31

Is Agile a Methodology?

Question: would you agree with me, along with many other agile practitioners, that agile* is not a methodology? Indeed, agile does use methods and processes, but is itself a methodology? The easy answer is that you can’t do agile in a step-by-step, prescriptive way. In the same token, agile makes…

Agile

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Is Agile a Methodology?
Is Agile a Methodology?
Agile

2 min read


Aug 29

Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility

One VERY helpful framing we use when we go inside organizations to help them on their agile transformation, is the notion of Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility. Capital “A” Agile is the disciplined application of Agile frameworks such as Scrum, while lower case “a” agile and agility…

Agile

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Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility
Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility
Agile

3 min read


Aug 28

7 Telltale Signs of Waterfall Agile

waterfall agile [ˈwɔːtəfɔːl aj-ahyl]: the paradoxical phenomenon observed in large organizations where agile transformation is attempted to be delivered with waterfall project management This is a follow-up article to earlier published Addressing the Irony of Waterfall Agile. At Agile OD we get called in by client organizations to resuscitate stalling…

Agile

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7 Telltale Signs of Waterfall Agile
7 Telltale Signs of Waterfall Agile
Agile

6 min read


Jul 26

Try This Simple Two Step Approach to Conflict Resolution

Caught in an argument, tough negotiation or even a full-blown office battle? Try this simple two step conflict resolution approach. I’ve been using it to great effect, and I don’t know how many times it has saved me from trouble. Step 1: Convert disagreement into misalignment Step 2: Convert misalignment…

Agile

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Try This Simple Two Step Approach to Conflict Resolution
Try This Simple Two Step Approach to Conflict Resolution
Agile

3 min read


May 7

The Many Faces of a Learning Professional

Our need to be right is persistant and we learning professionals are no exception. The key to be an effective and helpful learning professional is to tame that need and accept that learning is a complex and dynamic process with the learner. …

Learning Organization

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The Many Faces of a Learning Professional
The Many Faces of a Learning Professional
Learning Organization

3 min read


Aug 5, 2022

What is a High Performing Leader?

At Agile Organization Development we regularly design and deliver High Performance Leadership Development Programmes for MNCs. The set up by the client is typically a few months to one year journey among a pool of mid to senior leaders designated as “HIPOs” (high potentials) and next generation executive leaders. Client…

Agile

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What is a High Performing Leader?
What is a High Performing Leader?
Agile

6 min read


May 29, 2022

It’s seductive to assume that data is really knowledge.

Dr. W.E. Deming, the father of TQM (Total Quality Management) and the whole Lean movement, once said: Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion. And then Professors Milo Jones and Philippe Silberzahn, authors of an insightful book that dissects the failures of arguably the largest data organization in…

Leadership

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It’s seductive to assume that data is really knowledge.
It’s seductive to assume that data is really knowledge.
Leadership

2 min read

Takeshi Yoshida

Takeshi Yoshida

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