changing the language of change (agile+beyond 2014)
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PLEASE NOTE SLIDES ≠ PRESENTATION
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• They will make little sense to you if you were not at
the live session.
Ex-roughneck
Ex-programmer
Ex-project/program manager
Life-long learner
Coach
Lean change advocate
Conversation partisan
(+Offshore sailor)
Who is Andrew?
“One of the most basic problems of modern management is that the mechanical way of thinking is so ingrained in our everyday conception of organisations that it is often difficult to organise in any other way.“ - Gareth Morgan
Exercise
In groups of three (or so): 1.Pick a metaphor card 2.Write a one or two sentence
mission statement that uses or reflects the metaphor (5 minutes)
3.We’ll read them out and discuss the impact (10 minutes)
References Morgan, Gareth, Images of Organisation, Sage, 1986/1997. Morgan, Gareth, Imaginization, Sage, 1997. Lakoff, George & Johnson, Mark, Metaphors we Live By, University of Chicago Press, 1980. Geary, James, I is an Other, HarperCollins, 2011 Carse, James P., Finite and Infinite Games, MacMillan, 1986 Photos: Wikimedia (various) www.seriousplay.com www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/170257936 The Banff Centre, Donald Lee
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