Category: Quotes
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People evolve their own responses
A mechanical system simply acts according to its instructions. But a living system, with its internal intelligence and complex feedback organisation, reacts to the meaning it finds in the information. The system selects the messages to which it listens and then evolves its own response.1 Human beings are a prime example of living systems with…
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Peter Block on freedom
…perhaps the real task of leadership is to confront people with their freedom.…freedom is what creates accountability. Freedom is not an escape from accountability……our willingness to care for the well-being of the whole occurs when we are confronted with our freedom, and when we choose to accept and act on that freedom.—Peter Block 1 Notes:1.…
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What is the mind?
The mind is a process that regulates the flow of energy and information .1 —Daniel Siegel Notes: 1 Daniel Siegel, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Google Personal Growth Series, YouTube (5:22)
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Det är notoriskt svårt att få folk att följa reglerna
Jan-Erik Sebestyén skriver i ett mail till Agile Swedens maillista 2015-10-07 08:54:51 att: Men som alla som jobbat med scrum, puls och liknande agil ansatser så kan det se bättre ut än hur det fungerar i verkligheten. Även om grundkonceptet är hur enkelt som helst så är det notoriskt svårt få folk följa reglerna. Exakt!…
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Makt är att vara med och dela kunskap och information
Jan-Erik Sebestyén skriver i ett mail till Agile Swedens maillista 2015-10-07 10:25:26 att: Ett grundproblem är makt hamnar hos individer i dagens system. Det gör att kunskap och information blir makt, något som gör flödet av kunskap och information segt. Det vill vi ha är detsamma som i alla demokratiska system: att makt är att…
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Mindfulness and aliveness
We are only alive when we are alive!1 —Jon Kabat-Zinn Notes: 1 Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Healing Power of Mindfulness, YouTube (6:23)
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Work is not just work
Work is not just work, it’s the place to experience the love of your life.—Daniel Siegel 1 Note:1. The Human Mind and the Cultivation of Well-Being, https://youtu.be/T6tZ4VC6zR8?t=1349, YouTube. Accessed: 2022-09-15. Published: 2011-09-17. Update 2022-09-15: Link updated. Text converted to blocks.
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Dee Hock on rules
Countless times over the years I have asked diverse groups of people to reflect very carefully on their work within organizations and to make a simple balance sheet. How much time, energy, and ingenuity did they spend obeying senseless rules and procedures that had little to do with the results they were expected to achieve?…
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Homo sapiens is a small-tribe species
Here’s the core of the issue, as I see it. I think of homo sapiens as a small-tribe species. The large social structures we’ve learned to build are not agile, or resilient, or people-friendly. They don’t suit us. And mostly they no longer work well. The evidence that they are not working has been around…
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Agile software development in the 1970s
Here is Dee Hock’s own story of the development of VISA’s first electronic authorization system (BASE 1) which was launched in 1973. We were determined that the needs of our members and cardholders would be served, not the needs of technology or vendors. That required internal responsibility. We decided to become our own prime contractor,…