I recently enjoyed a podcast interview with Tom Cagley from the Software Process and Measurement Cast (SPaMCAST), talking about agile, process improvement, CMMI, and some of my (mis)adventures in scaling organizations. Check it out at https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/spamcast-455-michael-king-agile-and-discipline-in-action/
BLUF/Summary Most leaders want a culture of high agency — people who take ownership, solve problems without being asked, and push the organization forward. But they treat agency as a hiring trait rather than a design choice. You don't get a high-agency culture by finding high-agency people. You
BLUF/Summary AI agents offer enormous promise for organizations for collaboration and automation — but they can only act on knowledge that's been captured, structured, and made accessible. If your culture, processes, decision approach, and institutional expertise live in people's heads, your AI investment isn't
Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): I recently had the opportunity my framework on growing an organization's stability and value, to avoid grow leading to "house of cards" fragility and then moderated a great panel with three CEOs sharing their battle scars on scaling beyond the "
BLUF/Summary Create a culture where goals are challenging enough that meeting 70–90% is considered a massive win. If your team is hitting 100% of their targets every quarter, you aren't setting goals; you’re just documenting current capacity. The Tension of Ambition Finding the right tension