Surviving vs Thriving in an Agile Organization with Veronica Steward

We covered a lot of topics with Veronica! Here are some of the themes from our conversation:

Life coaching

Friday night every day at work

Survive and thrive

No such thing as strategic planning

Comfortable with the unknown

Thinking fast and slow

Upper brain vs lower brain thinking

Energy

Business schools

Medicine 2.0 vs 3.0

Shark tank

Orgs and survival and culture and valuation

Cost of scrum teams

Household ownership and accountability and company ownership and accountability

Does control kill creativity?

Gamblers

You come to Vegas, you will lose money, but what did you learn (company analogy)

Product Development is probabilistic, not deterministic

Thriving - holistic and transparency

Tesla - optimizes for time with high level of transparency

Deliver frequently

Employee experience

Great resignation

Time is important for companies, but also for employees!

Recession

Is survival mode appropriate now? Is it prudent?

Stock market - buy when stocks are down

Companies - invest when times are tough

Pragmatic people will be pragmatic

Experimenters will always be experimenting

Change rates and energy

5th discipline - rubber band effect

Personality profiles - strengths finder, DISC

GC index

Marcus Buckingham (strengths finder)

Talent but no joy

What’s the solution - balance!

Surviving in 2023 - people who think different

Most of us collect a paycheck and are detached from ownership mentality (shark tank)

As startups grow, ownership mentality fades, and thriving shifts to surviving

Lack of financial intelligence transfers into work

Layoffs

Very few people in an org understand why the layoffs are actually happening

Parenting and analogy to leadership

I’m learning every single day because I only know what I know

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