Wholehearted Leadership in a Complex World [This post first appeared on LinkedIn. You can comment on it here] It was a great pleasure last week to join Rohit Gautam on his Curiosulus Chronicles podcast, and the episode is now available on YouTube: We were of course focused on the recent publication of Wholehearted, and Rohit was not the first to be […] https://blog.agendashift.com/2....025/05/09/wholeheart
Prescriptive vs descriptive Previously: OODA loop takeaways [This post was first published on LinkedIn here – your reactions and comments there welcome!] What is the Toyota Production System (TPS)? Is it a long list of tools, many with Japanese names – kanban cards, heijunka, andon cords, hoshin kanri, and so on? Or is it an expression of Toyota’s epic, multi-generational […] https://blog.agendashift.com/2....025/05/01/prescripti
Agendashift roundup, April 2025 Leading in the Knowledge Economy (LIKE) – Spring 2025 cohort begins today*, so I’m getting this out early. In this edition: Wholehearted is released in print and on Kindle; Podcasts, meetups, webinars, and Office hours / AMA; Further ahead Wholehearted is released in print and on Kindle This month saw the print and Kindle releases […] https://blog.agendashift.com/2....025/04/30/agendashif
OODA loop takeaways Previously: Engage with the organisation *as it actually is* [This post was first published on LinkedIn here – comments there welcome!] I’m old enough to have grown up with the original BBC Radio version of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, and this was one of my favourite scenes (one of the several […] https://blog.agendashift.com/2....025/04/25/ooda-loop-
It gets complicated… Think about which part of your organisation you identify with most strongly. Then the parts it relates to – peer units, subunits formal and informal, higher-level units, and so on – and the nature of those relationships – relationships of flow, service, accountability, belonging, strategic interest, and so on. It gets complicated pretty quickly, doesn’t […] https://blog.agendashift.com/2....025/04/24/it-gets-co