- Authentic Conversations and the Art of Feedbacking
- Strategy Session Facilitation with Design Thinking & Liberating Structures
- Knowing to Stop – A Confucius Teaching
- Agile 101
- A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile Scrum
- Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Startup: Clarified
- Try Design Thinking + Scrum: A Powerful Hybrid Agile Approach
- Scrum Sprint Pilot
- Maslow’s Final Theory Z
- Rapid Design Thinking template: Ideate customer solutions in less than 30 minutes
- Why Design Thinking + Scrum Makes a lot of Sense
- Coaching Fair Process to the Impatient Leader
- Coach Takeshi’s Pedagogy (v2024)
- Frame Decisions and Design Choices
- Understand How Emotions and Perceptions Shape Judgement
- Sign-up: Use Time and Tradeoffs to Your Advantage | Tue 22 Sep
- If-Then Plans: Follow-Through by Design
- Defaults: The Science of the Choice You Don’t Make
- The wound is the place where the light enters you
- Friction: Where Good Intentions Stall
- Prospect Theory: How Framing Changes Decisions
- The Accountability Culture Shift
- The Moods We Bring Into the Room: Emotional Contagion
- Start from the End
- Misjudging Ourselves and Others Under Pressure: The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
- CALM: How to Make Active Listening a Habit
- Vision Hierarchy: Making Your Vision Connected with Your Team – An Agile Exercise
- The Limits of Intuitive Decision-Making: Affect Heuristic
- Deciding Well on a Bad Day: Integral and Incidental Emotions
- It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease
- Spoon Theory | A simple way to manage your daily energy
- What is the signal, beneath the noise?
- Navigating Uncertainty, Handling Complexity (Session Recording)
- How to Build a Learning Organization in the Age of AI Disruption
- Attention!
- The Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum (2024 updated)
- Fair Process – A Primer
- The Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum (2020 original article)
- Coach Takeshi’s Pedagogy (v2021)
- Aristotle’s Influence Model
- Value Proposition Canvas (VPC) & Business Model Canvas (BMC)
- Aristotle’s Influence Model (2024 deep-dive)
- Chunking
- Neuroscience Essentials
- Four Lenses of Corporate Innovation
- Is it true, kind, necessary?
- Outsmart the Planning Fallacy
- Agile 101：アジャイル基礎講座 (日本語)
- Change Management in OD, and the MS3 Model of Change
- 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s according to Confucius
- Scrum A to Z：スクラム導入講習 (日本語)
- It’s seductive to assume that data is really knowledge.
- The Two Simple Traits of High Performing Teams
- Navigating Conversations with Avoidant Personalities: 5 Archetypes & Communication Strategies
- KISS Your Work Stress Good Bye
- Serenity Prayer
- Command & Control – Why it’s OK, and Not OK
- Facilitating Healthy Storming
- Managing Smart People, Managing Quiet People (post session recap)
- Welcome to Design Thinking
- Three Chairs of Empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate Empathy
- Better Teamwork with Synchronous & Asynchronous Communication
- Reflections on “Think like a farmer”
- The Many Faces of a Learning Professional
- Is Agile a Methodology?
- Spirit of Agile/agility
- Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility
- 7 Telltale Signs of Waterfall Agile
- Addressing the Irony of Waterfall Agile
- Start From Here: 5 Recommended Reads For Learning Lean & Agile
- The 3 Challenges Of Startup Marketing
- How to Fix Startup Marketing
- Great Product, Not Selling
- Lattice Work of Mental Models
- Sprint Till You Drop, and three other tales of Scrum gone wrong
- Dialogue vs Directional Talk and the Tell Sell Yell Escalation
- Shared Understanding
- Go for Outcome, Less Output
- Radical Candor: My Go To Feedback Routine
- The Concept of Affordance | Design Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Two Templates for Design Thinking POV (Point of View) Statements
- Liberating Structures
- The Art of Kanban + User Story Mapping
- VUCA”O” – Why I add Overwhelming to Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
- Prototyping a Walking Skeleton
- The non-linear, non-sequential nature of Design Thinking
- From Know-Do to Know-[Stop/Think/Design/Make]-Do
- The many flavors of Experimental and Iterative approaches
- Kaizen (改善) and Kaku-shin (革新)
- What you tell a person is less important than what you enable the person to tell you.
- Robert Fritz’s Concept of Structural Tension
- The Two Cadence of User Feedback
- Design Instead of Planning
- The Map Is Not The Territory
- Premature Scaling is Startup Death
- In Praise of NVC – Learnings from Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication
- Zen koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
- The Cadence of Scrum
- If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning and the Divergent, Convergent Double Diamond in Design Thinking
- Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress
- Relentless Pursuit of Product Market Fit is Customer Obsession
- Karpman’s Drama Triangle
- Don’t Mix What I Want FROM You with What I Want FOR You
- Knowledge is for Consumption
- Innovator’s Dilemma and Organizational Ambidexterity
- Stop #failureporn
- Ambidextrous Organizations Explained
- Mental Model Dōjō TV: Agile Success Stories – Solaria Labs, Liberty Mutual
- Disagreement vs Misalignment
- Kill the Zombies in the Eisenhower Matrix
- 0% chance of failure nor success, if we don’t try
- Mental Model Dōjō TV: Agile Success Stories – UOB Finlab Felix Tan
- What To Do When Feeling Overwhelmed
- KISS – Keep It Stupid Simple
- Go with the FLOW to capture your thoughts from Design Thinking customer interviews
- Let’s Talk About Fear of Failure
- What do we do when we have missing expertise in the Scrum Team?
- 8 Mind & Heart Hacks for Emotionally Charged Situations
- In Praise of Risk and the late Anne Duformantelle
- The Power of Tribes in Agile Organizations
- The Three Competencies of Mastering Complex Product Development
- Classic Leadership Balance Still Holds for Agile Leadership
- Scrum RACI
- デザイン思考へようこそ
- Get Unstuck with Non-Linear Thinking
- Feed-Forward Positive Feedback with the FFF Feed-Forward Formula
- Coach Takeshi’s 2020 Wrap Up and 2021 Wishes
- Learn Design Thinking in 30 minutes: Origami Gift Exercise
- How to Receive Critical Feedback in a Breeze: Try CALM – “Curious Active Listening Mindset”
- Curious Active Listening Mindset (CALM) as a Leadership Modality
- Agile Organization Development Practitioner’s Community: Why, How and What
- Measuring Coaching, Training, Consulting Intervention Efficacy and Needs
- Lay Your Lobster Traps
- Coach Takeshi’s Scrum Crash Course
- What is an Authentic Conversation? (Follow-up post to “Authentic Conversations and the Art of Feedbacking”)
- How to Build an Agile Team in 6 Steps
- How to Influence, Not Manipulate (Follow-up post to “Aristotle’s Influence Model”)
- Sense-making is also a process
- Understanding the Science of Motivation for Leading with Inspiration and Purpose
- Team Alignment in VUCA”O” Times: Try W3 x 124A (What, So What, Now What x 1-2-4-All)
- Separating Thinking & Doing Time: Learnings from David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work”
- Remote and Hybrid Teamwork Success: “Asynchronous” Communication is the Key
- How to Build a Kanban Board from Scratch
- c2it to follow-through
- Lean Lingo
- Can agile coaching hours count towards ICF credentialling?
- What is a High Performing Leader?
- Gong Xi Fa Cai 2023!
- Conflict Resolution: Try This Simple Two Step Approach
