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Frog thinkers and bicycle thinkers.

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.

A delightful metaphor that cuts to the heart of systems thinking.

Thanks to Richard for sharing!Clipped from www.richarddurnall.comThere are two types of thinkers in the world, frog thinkers and bike thinkersThis to me is the heart of systems thinking Read more at www.richarddurnall.com 

The lean manager

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.

Some insights from Jim Womack on the nature of a lean manager.Clipped from www.lean.orgTools — for process analysis and for management — are wonderful things. And they are absolutely necessary. And managers love them because they seem to provide short cuts to doing a better job. But they can’t achieve their potential results, and often [...]

As a manager define outputs, not process

This post was originally published here by Valtech UK consultant David Draper.

Liz haz written a great post here describing a situation where the deployment team needed to learn for to leverage the development team to achieve a more effective rout out of development into QA and live environments.

The line that made me smile was -
Ask for consistent outputs, not consistent processes
This is a big leap for [...]