Here ’tis:

We had a good discussion of the Stoos Movement and combining agile with management. Or replacing management with agile.

YouTube:

Slides from Hangout:

Transcript from Hangout:

You invited people into the hangout.

Peter Isackson

9:49 AM

Hi Jay

You invited people into the hangout.

Loretta Donovan

10:37 AM

Given my audio issues, I’ll text. In the healthcare industry, there is agile behavior without agile management.

Individual performers (nurses, MDs, technicians) need to be aware of the results of their actions. But leadership does not.

Bjorn Billhardt

10:40 AM

Great listening to everyone – my plane is leaving so I have to log off. Thanks for organizing Jay!

Loretta Donovan

10:42 AM

Tenure, academic publishing, the “old boys club” are holding back the business schools.

Jim McGee

10:43 AM

@Loretta – excellent point about existing organizational reward systems

Loretta Donovan

10:45 AM

I’m seeing the Boards of some organizations playing a greater role in shifting management models.

Most of that is caused by the economics of doing business.

me

10:46 AM

Jeff— The guy in Seattle who has used agile throughout his organization is Bill Justice. I’ll try to track down his coordinates.

Jim McGee

10:46 AM

Boards have the advantage of being more aware of the external environment than management

Loretta Donovan

10:46 AM

Jim, I agree.

Jim McGee

10:47 AM

time for us all to reread Alinky’s “Rules for Radicals”

Loretta Donovan

10:49 AM

wooo

Jeff Tillett

10:58 AM

This was great Jay thanks for sharing the conversation as always!

Peter Isackson

11:01 AM

I have to leave. Thanks. Bye.

Loretta Donovan

11:02 AM

Excellent point, Dave.

Dave Ferguson

11:03 AM

Thank you all. Jay, I appreciate the invitation.

Anne Adrian

11:04 AM

thank you; interesting perspectives..always learning

Loretta Donovan

11:04 AM

Great discussion, everyone. Thanks, Jay.

Jeff Tillett

11:04 AM

Great hangout everyone!

bye

Janet Laane Effron

11:04 AM

Thanks! Nice to have had the chance to stop in

Jim McGee

11:04 AM

thanks Jay as always for your enterpreneurial energy

 

A year ago, twenty of us met on the mountaintop in Stoos to imagine management and business anew. Peter Stevens sent invitations:

Steve Denning, Jurgen Appelo, Franz Röösli and Peter Stevens are pleased to personally invite you to a spontaneous weekend in the mountains. Our goal is to bring together a group of (no more than) 20 (thought) leaders from around the world in business, IT, and human development. We have a nice hotel, ski slopes, a spa, and a conference room. 20 cool people and 2 days. What will come out of it? I hope you will join us to create something wonderful (or just have a good time)!

This first meeting has become known as the Stoos Gathering. Here’s Steve Denning’s description and a few snapshots.

Everyone has his or her special twist on this Stoss-thing. Half the attendees were authors and we have our opinions.

For me, Steve Denning’s Radical Management covers most of the bases.

TODAY

Come to our birthday party and symposium, Stoos Connect, . LIVE.

Things kick off at 3:00 pm Friday in Amsterdam. That’s 6:00 am in San Francisco, but I plan to be there.

Latest on today’s activities, via Steve Denning:

The event features a great speaker lineup, including Roger Martin (dean of the Rotman School of Business), Dan Pink (author of Drive), Jurgen Appelo (Management 3.0) and Lisa Earle McLeod (author of Selling With Noble Purpose). (My talk is expected to be around 14.25 US ET.)

Interestingly, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman Business School, will be giving his talk from Davos. Hopefully he will share his thoughts on how “the sybaritic gabfest known as the World Economic Forum” relates to the Stoos movement.

The conference will start at 15:00 Amsterdam time (US ET 9am) and run till 21:15 (US ET 15.15)

Need homework? Steve Denning recommends:

• Towards the Tipping Point in Leadership & Management
• The paradigm shift is happening
• The five surprises of radical management

Online, stay current with the Stoos Network on LinkedIn and #Stoos on Twitter.

Personal

The spirit of Stoos is still resounding in my head a year later.

Immediately after Stoos, I went to Lugano for a few days to reflect on the Agile movement, the Beyond Budgeting movement, the Management 3.0, Reinventing Management, and the Radical Management movement. I went into that delightful Flow feeling as I picked through dozens of wonderful, optimistic concepts.

Lugano

Conclusions: Organizations are organisms, not machines. Those organisms are living networks of learners. Shareholder value is a con-game. The current system is irreparably broken.

Deep change doesn’t occur overnight (unless you witness a miracle); it soaks in. I think the spirit of Stoos got me so interested in the role of emotion in business and what happens when we trust workers to make their own decisions. I see everything though a clearer lens. Humans count.

Join us at the LIVE event. Tweet to #Stoos. See you online.

Saturday

We’ll Hangout on Google at 10:00 am (Pacific) day after tomorrow to talk about what we heard on World Stoos Day and how it turns learning and development upside down.

Jurgen Appelo plays with more models of how things ought to work than anyone I else I know. His book Management 3.0 presents, assesses, and sometimes interconnects with agile, people-oriented processes relentlessly. I’m a fan. See his blog. And this presentation:

Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (1)

Creating New Leaders for the 21st Century (2)