SPaMCAST 750 - Domains Of Business Agility, A Conversation With Evan Leybourn

<p dir="ltr">SPaMCAST 750 marks the return of Evan Leybourn to the podcast. Evan and I discuss the different domains of business agility, the relationship between behavior and culture, and whether Taylorism still has a place in the world. </p> <p dir="ltr">Evan is the co-founder of the Business Agility Institute; an international membership body to both champion and support the next generation of organizations. Companies that are agile, innovative, and dynamic - perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets. Evan is also the author of Directing the Agile Organisation (2012) and #noprojects; a culture of continuous value (2018).</p> <p dir="ltr">Website: <a href= "https://businessagility.institute/">https://businessagility.institute/</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Re-read Saturday News!</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">This week we tackle Chapter 1 of <a href= "https://amzn.to/3JZ92ti">Team Topologies: Organizing Business And Technology Teams For Fast Flow</a> by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. The authors open Chapter 1 with a quote from Naomi Stafford, Guide to Organizational Design.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Organizations should be viewed as complex and adaptive organizations rather than mechanistic and linear systems”  </p> <p dir="ltr">The quotes set the tone for <a href= "https://amzn.to/3JZ92ti">Team Topologies: Organizing Business And Technology Teams For Fast Flow</a>. Chapter 1 is titled The Problem With Org Charts. In this chapter, the authors point out problems in how organizations describe and organize themselves. </p> <p dir="ltr">Buy a copy and upgrade your coaching skills - <a href="https://amzn.to/3JZ92ti">Team Topologies: Organizing Business And Technology Teams For Fast Flow</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Previous Installments:</p> <p dir="ltr">Week 1: <a href="http://bit.ly/3nHGkW4">Front Matter and Logistics</a> - <a href= "http://bit.ly/3nHGkW4">http://bit.ly/3nHGkW4</a> </p> <p dir="ltr">Week 2: <a href="https://bit.ly/3zGGyQf">The Problem With Org Charts</a> - <a href= "https://bit.ly/3zGGyQf">https: