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    Knowledge Base

    Use Time and Tradeoffs to Your Advantage

    Sign-up: Use Time and Tradeoffs to Your Advantage | Tue 22 Sep

    Session Recording - Frame Decisions and Design Choices - Coach Takeshi

    Frame Decisions and Design Choices

    If-Then Plans | Coach Takeshi

    If-Then Plans: Follow-Through by Design

    Friction - Mental Model Dojo - Coach Takeshi

    Friction: Where Good Intentions Stall

    Defaults - Mental Model Dojo - Coach Takeshi

    Defaults: The Science of the Choice You Don’t Make

    Prospect Theory - Mental Model Dojo - Coach Takeshi

    Prospect Theory: How Framing Changes Decisions

    Session Recording - Understand how emotions and perception shape judgement

    Understand How Emotions and Perceptions Shape Judgement

    Emotional Contagion - 16 Behavioral Science Concepts that take Emotional Intelligence to the next level - Agile OD

    The Moods We Bring Into the Room: Emotional Contagion

    Start from the End | Mental Model Dōjō, Coach Takeshi

    Start from the End

    Hot-Cold Empathy Gap - 16 Behavioral Science Concepts that take Emotional Intelligence to the next level - Agile OD

    Misjudging Ourselves and Others Under Pressure: The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap

    CALM - Curious Active Listening Mindset - Coach Takeshi

    CALM: How to Make Active Listening a Habit

    Integral vs Incidental Emotions - 16 Behavioral Science Concepts that take Emotional Intelligence to the next level - Coach Takeshi

    Deciding Well on a Bad Day: Integral and Incidental Emotions

    Affect Heuristic - 16 Behavioral Science Concepts that take Emotional Intelligence to the next level - Mental Model Dōjō - Coach Takeshi

    The Limits of Intuitive Decision-Making: Affect Heuristic

    Chunking

    Chunking

    Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum

    The Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum (2024 updated)

    Four Lenses of Corporate Innovation

    Four Lenses of Corporate Innovation

    The Accountability Culture Shift

    The Accountability Culture Shift

    Agile 101：アジャイル基礎講座 (日本語)

    Planning Fallacy

    Outsmart the Planning Fallacy

    Scurm A to Z - スクラム導入講座

    Scrum A to Z：スクラム導入講習 (日本語)

    Navigating conversations with avoidant personalities

    Navigating Conversations with Avoidant Personalities: 5 Archetypes & Communication Strategies

    Command & Control, why it's ok, and not ok

    Command & Control – Why it’s OK, and Not OK

    Navigating Uncertainty, Handling Complexity - Leadership Skills Development

    Navigating Uncertainty, Handling Complexity (Session Recording)

    Managing Smart People, Managing Quiet People

    Managing Smart People, Managing Quiet People (post session recap)

    Post-session recording: MMDojo How to healthily storm

    Facilitating Healthy Storming

    What is Fair Process?

    Fair Process – A Primer

    Capital A Agile lower case a agile/agility

    Capital “A” Agile and lower case “a” agile/agility

    Is Agile a Methodology?

    Try this simple two step approach to conflict resolution

    Conflict Resolution: Try This Simple Two Step Approach

    Value Proposition Canvas (VPC) & Business Model Canvas (BMC)

    Essence of High Performance Leadership Development

    What is a High Performing Leader?

    It's seductive to assume that data is really knowledge

    It’s seductive to assume that data is really knowledge.

    Lean lingo

    Lean Lingo

    Coaching Fair Process to the Impatient Leader

    Coaching Fair Process to the Impatient Leader

    c2it: confirm, communicate, dot the i's, cross the t's

    c2it to follow-through

    How to Build a Kanban Board from Scratch

    How to Build a Kanban Board from Scratch

    Remote and Hybrid Teamwork Success: Asynchronous Communication is the Key

    Remote and Hybrid Teamwork Success: “Asynchronous” Communication is the Key

    Separating Thinking Doing Time Blue Red Work

    Separating Thinking & Doing Time: Learnings from David Marquet’s “Blue & Red Work”

    What, So What, Now What x 1-2-4-All

    Team Alignment in VUCA”O” Times: Try W3 x 124A (What, So What, Now What x 1-2-4-All)

    Understanding the Science of Motivation for Leading with Inspiration and Purpose

    Understanding the Science of Motivation for Leading with Inspiration and Purpose

    How to influence without manipulating

    How to Influence, Not Manipulate (Follow-up post to “Aristotle’s Influence Model”)

    Agile Team Building

    How to Build an Agile Team in 6 Steps

    Why Design Thikning plus Scrum makes a lot of Sense

    Why Design Thinking + Scrum Makes a lot of Sense

    Rapid Design Thinking Template

    Rapid Design Thinking template: Ideate customer solutions in less than 30 minutes

    Coach Takeshi's Scrum Crash Course

    Coach Takeshi’s Scrum Crash Course

    Curious Active Listening Mindset as a Leadership Modality - Directional Talk or Dialogue?

    Curious Active Listening Mindset (CALM) as a Leadership Modality

    Curious Active Listening Mindset for Receiving Feedback

    How to Receive Critical Feedback in a Breeze: Try CALM – “Curious Active Listening Mindset”

    Welcome to Design Thinking

    Welcome to Design Thinking

    Learn Design Thinking in 30 minutes: Origami Gift Exercise

    Learn Design Thinking in 30 minutes: Origami Gift Exercise

    Feed-Forward Positive Feedback with the FFF Feed-Forward Formula

    Feed-Forward Positive Feedback with the FFF Feed-Forward Formula

    Get yourself unstuck with non-linear thinking. Try lateral, divergent & convergent, and mosaic thinking.

    Get Unstuck with Non-Linear Thinking

    デザイン思考へようこそ

    Scrum RACI

    Scrum RACI

    Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum

    The Delegation, Empowerment Spectrum (2020 original article)

    Classic Leadership Balance Still Holds for Agile Leadership

    Three-Compentencies-of-Mastering-Product-Development

    The Three Competencies of Mastering Complex Product Development

    Performing teams have two simple traits: 1. They have team processes that work. 2. People talk to each other.

    The Two Simple Traits of High Performing Teams

    Coach Takeshi's Agile 101

    Agile 101

    What do we do when we have missing expertise in the Scrum Team?

    What do we do when we have missing expertise in the Scrum Team?

    Smart people can't stand looking stupid

    Let’s Talk About Fear of Failure

    Go with the FLOW to capture your thoughts from Design Thinking customer interviews | agile-od.com

    Go with the FLOW to capture your thoughts from Design Thinking customer interviews

    KISS - Keep it Stupid Simple

    KISS – Keep It Stupid Simple

    0% chance of failure nor success, if we don’t try

    Kill the Zombies in the Eisenhower Matrix | agile-od.com

    Kill the Zombies in the Eisenhower Matrix

    Disagreement vs Misalignment

    Disagreement vs Misalignment

    Relentless Pursuit of Product Market Fit is Customer Obsession | agile-od.com

    Relentless Pursuit of Product Market Fit is Customer Obsession

    Inductive, deductive reasoning and Design Thinking

    Deductive and Inductive Reasoning and the Divergent, Convergent Double Diamond in Design Thinking

    Vincent Van Gogh Three Sunflowers

    If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced

    The Cadence of Scrum | agile-od.com

    The Cadence of Scrum

    Design Instead of Planning - agile-od.com

    Design Instead of Planning

    The Two Cadence of User Feedback - agile-od.com

    The Two Cadence of User Feedback

    革新 kaku-shin

    Kaizen (改善) and Kaku-shin (革新)

    The many flavors of experimental and iterative approaches

    The many flavors of Experimental and Iterative approaches

    know do vs know design do

    From Know-Do to Know-[Stop/Think/Design/Make]-Do

    Design Thinking is non-sequential

    The non-linear, non-sequential nature of Design Thinking

    Prototyping a Walking Skeleton

    Prototyping a Walking Skeleton

    Design Thinking + Liberating Structures

    Strategy Session Facilitation with Design Thinking & Liberating Structures

    Scrum Sprint Pilot

    The Art of Kanban + User Story Mapping

    Design Thinking POV Templates | agile-od.com | Lifecycle

    Two Templates for Design Thinking POV (Point of View) Statements

    Try Design Thinking + Scrum | agile-od.com | Lifecycle

    Try Design Thinking + Scrum: A Powerful Hybrid Agile Approach

    Concept of Affordance | Design Thinking | agile-od.com | Lifecycle

    The Concept of Affordance | Design Thinking

    Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Startup, Clarified | Lifecycle

    Lean, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Startup: Clarified

    A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile, Scrum | Lifecycle

    A Pretty Good Summary of Lean, Agile Scrum

    Outcome vs Output, agile-od.com, Lifecycle

    Go for Outcome, Less Output

    Shared Understanding | agile-od.com | Lifecycle

    Shared Understanding

    Sprint Till You Drop, and three other tales of Scrum gone wrong

    Spirit of Agile/agility

    Spirit of Agile/agility

    Start From Here: 5 Recommended Reads For Learning Lean & Agile