Thrashing vs Focus
Squirrel describes a client of his that is "thrashing"—trying to do so many different things that they aren't getting anything finished.
Agile Conversations Book
In our new book Agile Conversations, we argue that the main reason organizations aren’t effective is that they forget to share valid information, have difficult conversations, and build relationships. We show how to use techniques from Action Science to have the five key conversations of highly productive teams.
What is Conversational Transformation?
Learn How Difficult Conversations Unlock Successful Digital, Agile, Devops and Lean Transformations
Transformation is Essential
There is more pressure than ever to adapt and evolve. And for many companies incremental change is no longer enough. Radical changes to behaviour require a different culture. The question is how do you transform your culture?
Conversation is Key
Culture is an emergent property of all of your conversations. Change your conversations and you change your culture. However, our habits of conversation are deeply ingrained, and powerful cognitive biases work against any change.
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Conversational Transformation is a skill. With disciplined practise, you can improve your conversations the way you’d improve your tennis game or your piano playing. We will try and inspire you, to show you how to practice. Doing the work? That’s up to you.
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Handling Negative Emotions Safely
A reader points out that our example conversations often show people masking emotions, but we don't say as much about what to do when someone is being rude or when you yourself feel your emotions are out of control.