Thoughts, experiences and teachings from Coach Takeshi‘s coaching, training and facilitation work:
The Reflective Leader and Learning Organization Guide: collection of thoughts on helping leaders use the power of inquiry and introspection for building the mental facility needed in developing Learning Organizations.
The Lean & Agile Practitioner: sharing experiments and experiences from work with clients on their Lean & Agile organizational transformation journey.
Mental Model Dōjō: sharing the many mental models that Coach Takeshi actually uses for client sessions.
VUCA”O” – Why I add Overwhelming to Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
Because when we’re overwhelmed, we make simple and complicated situations, complex... Read More
Radical Candor: My Go To Feedback Routine
In search of better feedbacking As a coach and mentor, challenging... Read More
Knowing to Stop – A Confucius Teaching
Confucius’ 7 spaces of learning Knowing to stop – is a... Read More
How to Get Scrum Right on First Attempt
Pilot objective Within the Scrum community, there is abundant writing suggesting... Read More
Try Design Thinking + Scrum: A Powerful Hybrid Agile Approach
Classic Scrum’s Achilles’ heel One of the weak areas of classic... Read More
Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Startup: Clarified
Lean: not just a hype word for efficiency Yah sure, we... Read More
A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile Scrum
Glossary: Lean, Agile, Scrum, Sprint, Kanban Consider Lean & Agile as... Read More
Sprint Till You Drop, and three other tales of Scrum gone wrong
(This post is an excerpt from our earlier article A Pretty... Read More
Vision Hierarchy: Making Your Vision Connected with Your Team – An Agile Exercise
Sharing your Vision Leaders, why is it all so often that... Read More
Kaizen (改善) and Kaku-shin (革新)
My stance is that, change and transformation is a result. We... Read More
The many flavors of Experimental and Iterative approaches
The importance is to experiment and iterate. What approach you take... Read More
From Know-Do to Know-[Stop/Think/Design]-Do
We are highly functioning professionals. When we see a pattern, we... Read More
The non-linear, non-sequential nature of Design Thinking
Design Thinking is process driven. It is a process to help... Read More
Prototyping a Walking Skeleton
Either it’s the artist in us or the perfectionist taking control,... Read More
The Art of Kanban + User Story Mapping
Kanban is deep… Combine that with Jeff Patton’s User Story Mapping... Read More
Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures is a collection of powerful team exercises curated by... Read More
Two Templates for Design Thinking POV (Point of View) Statements
Two versions of Design Thinking POV (Point of View) Statement templates.... Read More
Systems Thinking
We tend to confront complex, dynamic realities with a language designed... Read More
Shared Understanding
I’m glad we all agree. (Really?) Read More
Dialogue vs Directional Talk and the Tell Sell Yell Escalation
Our need to be right is pervasive. Suspend your assumptions, create... Read More
Lattice Work of Mental Models
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s 95 years old “right hand man,” on... Read More