Talking to your culture

This presentation, given at Agile 2016, describes how to incorporate different world views to better understand and empathize with individuals, teams, and organizations. The different world views were discovered by Dr. Clare Graves, then published by his assistants Don Beck and Christopher Cowan in the book Spiral Dynamics. Other contributors to the field include Ken Wilber and Frederic Laloux.

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1. agileforall.com Making Agile a Reality® Talking To Your Culture @tptman PETER GREEN peter.green@agileforall.com JAKE CALABRESE jake.calabrese@agileforall.com @jcalabrese
2. @tptman @jcalabrese A Story…
3. @tptman @jcalabrese “It just felt like we were speaking different languages!”
4. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Dr. Clare W. Graves
5. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese 1960-1969 Data Validation Don E. Beck Ken Wilber Frederic Laloux Christopher Cowan 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 1970: Journal  of   Humanistic   Psychology 1974:   The   Futurist Graves, Beck 1975-1986 1986-1996 Beck, Cowan Dr. Clare W. Graves Data Collection 1952-1959 1996: 2014:
6. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Powerful Fast Impulsive/Powerful Power and Dominance, Heroism, Avoidance of Shame Conformist/Absolute Follow Authority, Social Roles, Absolute Truth Reliable Stable Unstabile Short-Term Dogmatic Classist Innovative Meritocracy Achievement/Enterprising Goal Driven, Success-Oriented, “Get Ahead” Ego-driven Unfulfilled Caring Friendly Pluralistic/Egalitarian Community, Relationship Driven, Collaborative Indecisive Critical Authentic Integrator Evolutionary/Integrated Sees the System, Purpose Driven, Wisdom beyond Rational Too Soon To Tell
7. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese I’ve got an idea for how to improve this process…
8. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese I want to make sure everyone agrees with that idea before we make anything final. Seems like an interesting idea - let’s dig in to how others might be impacted by a change and see what we can come up with. Thanks for asking, but I’m in charge here. I’ll decide on the process. We don’t have time to work on that. Show me how it would impact the bottom line and I might be interested. We’ve built this process based on years of experience; we’re not going to make a bunch of changes that aren’t proven to work.
9. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese
10. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Powerful Fast Impulsive/Powerful Power and Dominance, Heroism, Avoidance of Shame Conformist/Absolute Follow Authority, Social Roles, Absolute Truth Reliable Stable Unstabile Short-Term Dogmatic Classist Innovative Meritocracy Achievement/Enterprising Goal Driven, Success-Oriented, “Get Ahead” Ego-driven Unfulfilled Caring Friendly Pluralistic/Egalitarian Community, Relationship Driven, Collaborative Indecisive Critical Authentic Integrator Evolutionary/Integrated Sees the System, Purpose Driven, Wisdom beyond Rational Too Soon To Tell
11. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Someone at your table: Grab your cards Remove the blue tape Allow everyone to pick one card No peaking yet!
12. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Pair up with someone next to you Decide who will be the first: – Actor – Guesser I’ll be the first actor… Ok, I’ll be the first guesser.
13. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese 1st Actor: Read your card (don’t show it to the guesser!) Guesser: Ask about how things are going at work. Try to guess the world view of the actor. So, how are things going at work? ?
14. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese ?
15. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Swap Roles! So, how are things going at work? ?
16. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese ?
17. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Game Debrief Slide What did that reveal?
18. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Transcend and include One world view is not better than another While people have a dominant world view, different colors show up in different contexts It is not our job to evolve people A Few Key Points…
19. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Evolve!
20. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese A Few Key Points… Transcend and include One world view is not better than another While people have a dominant world view, different colors show up in different contexts It is not our job to evolve people Coach them where they are
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25. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese AMBER ORANGE GREEN Describe the benefits of an agile approach to:
26. Making Agile a Reality® @tptman @jcalabrese Remember That Story?