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A Quantum Physicist and an Agile Executive Walk into a Bar: empathy in a disordered world

Jean Tabaka, @jeantabaka June 19 2015

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Why so many martinis?

Why? Agile transformation

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Agile executives deserve empathy and need experimentation practices

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Quantum physicists can offer practical comfort

Physicists we know and love

Isaac Newton

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Erwin Schrödinger

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“Superposition”

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

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“Uncertainty Principle”

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Margaret Wheatley

Ilya Prirogene Henry Stapp Erich Jantsch Danah Zohar

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Quantum language is not entirely dissimilar to agile language

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12 principles of quantum physics that can guide agile executives

1. Superposition > We need fast feed back loops to know what is actually true

2. Relationship > It is the AND and process we engage in that matter more than hierarchy

and structure, give up predictability and open up to potentials

3. Elementary particles

> We are clouds of relationships, with dependencies on individuals and of teams on each other

4. Disorder and chaos

> We cannot be creative and innovative without disorder. Growth comes through disequilibrium, experimentation

5. Dissipative structures

> Adaptation and resilience in agile -- willing to change based on unexpected conditions

6. Autopoiesis > Every process we have impacts every other, and this is for

continuous growth, continuous improvement

7. Self-reference > Stay congruent in your vision and goal as you invite change through

self-organization, not command-and-control

8. Holism > Look at the entire value stream, don’t sub-optimize on silos, check

your feedback loops

9. Process over structure

> Watch the flow, the work, not the worker

10. Decentralization > Servant leaders know what decisions to move closest to the value

worker, stability is not through control

11. Uncertainty > Let go of false precision; use fast feedback: probe, sense, respond

as a way to deal with uncertainty.

12. [ ] > We don’t yet know what we don’t know, all things are possible

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What about empathy?

What now?

Richard Feynman

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Guesses and experiments

Design thinking

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Empathy experiments

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What did you say?

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Agile executives deserve empathy and need experimentation practices

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Quantum physicists can offer practical comfort

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A surprisingly cool deal…

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Where am I?

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Thank you

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Jean Tabaka @jeantabaka

jtabaka@rallydev.com

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