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Sooner, Safer, Happier: a Q&A with Jon Smart from DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas 2020

At DevOps Enterprise Summit Las Vegas, Jonathan Smart gave a keynote talk titled ‘Leading for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier’. Smart is the only person who has spoken at every DevOps Enterprise Summit London conference and each time in Las Vegas since 2017, previously from his role as head of ways of working at Barclays.

Helen Beal Jon Smart
on Oct 17, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility

The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.

Ben Linders Jesse Fewell
on Sep 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Further, Faster

Businesses that thrive over the long term can focus on just a few things that truly matter to their teams and core customers. The book Further, Faster by Bill Flynn provides ideas for business leaders to build teams, create a strategy to stay close to customers, and manage a company’s growth with cash as the primary metric.

Ben Linders Bill Flynn
on Aug 08, 2020
DevOps

Book Review and Q&A on "Standing on Shoulders: A Leader's Guide to Digital Transformation"

The book “Standing on Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation” provides an introduction to relevant thinking and practices on how to identify and address the major bottlenecks and concerns for transforming organizations. The authors share their industry experience applying these ideas, and how the move to remote working might change our approach to digital transformation.

Manuel Pais Jack Maher Carmen DeArdo
on Jul 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leading Lean

Leading Lean by Jean Dahl describes a journey that leaders can embark on to respond to disruptive change. It leads them through the six dimensions of leading self, others, the customer, and the enterprise, by creating an innovative culture that delivers value. It provides not just the theory behind Modern Lean, but also practical methods, tools, strategies, and case studies.

Ben Linders Jean Dahl
on Jun 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leveraging Digital Transformation

The book Leveraging Digital Transformation - Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization by M. Nadia Vincent is a guide for implementing digital transformations. It explores how to lead a digital transformation, how to engage people into the transformation, and what can be done to enable digitalization and innovation.

Ben Linders M. Nadia Vincent
on Jun 16, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Testing Business Ideas

The book Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder provides experiments that can be used to find out if your product ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. Experimentation also helps to reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success of new venture or business projects.

Ben Linders David Bland Alex Osterwalder
on Jan 22, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace

The book Build a Next-Generation Digital Workplace by Shailesh Shivakumar explains what employee experience platforms (EXP) are and how digital technologies can be used to improve employee productivity, increase employee engagement, and support collaboration.

Ben Linders Shailesh Kumar
on Jan 20, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Quantum Leadership

The book Quantum Leadership by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo brings to light the power of direct-intuitive practices – such as meditation, nature immersion, art, and exercise – to transform a leader’s consciousness to the highest point of leverage for entrepreneurial creativity that embeds social purpose.

Ben Linders Frederick Chavalit Tsao Chris Laszlo
on Jan 13, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

In the book EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation, the authors explain why and how every business today needs to become a digital business with technology at the core. They explain six principles and a variety of practices that organisations can apply to survive and thrive on the creative edge where value is generated.

Shane Hastie Jim Highsmith Linda Luu David Robinson
on Jan 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book: The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era

The Technology Takers – Leading Change in the Digital Era by Jens P. Flanding, Genevieve M. Grabman, and Sheila Q. Cox explains how organizations can achieve competitive advantage through their speed and flexibility in adopting technology. It prescribes a change management approach for adapting workplace behaviors to market-dominating technology to maximize its benefits.

Ben Linders Jens Flanding Genevieve Grabman Sheila Cox
on Oct 23, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Impact: 21st Century Change Management, Behavioral Science, and the Future of Work

The book Impact by Paul Gibbons explores how to lead and manage change in the 21st century to support digital transformations while taking the needs of millennials and Gen Z into account. It describes how we can humanize change and use pull models and dialogs to support behavior change.

Ben Linders Paul Gibbons
on Oct 11, 2019