8 November, 2013Amsterdam

Are you adaptable to change?The Smart OrganizationJohan Forshufvud

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”Charles Darwin

Reality of today will not be the reality of tomorrow

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#Purpose

#Autonomy

#Mastery

The big

WHY

Give people around the world the perfect music for every moment

Long term incentives for all staff

Introduction day in Sthlm

#Purpose

#Autonomy

#Mastery

What makes you feel“Yes, Monday again!”

Aligning on direction

The world is going mobile

Involvement leads to engagement

By: Dennis Porter

Adding transparency!

Henrik Kniberg

• Small, co-located, self-organized • End-to-end responsibility for the stuff they build –

from design to commit to deploy to maintenance. • Within the scope of its mission, a squad is empowered to

decide what to build, how to build it, and how to work together while doing it.

Autonomous Squad

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Retrospectives & Post Mortems Driven from below Supported from above

Henrik Kniberg

What did we learn?

Who’s fault was it?

Failure Recovery is more important than Failure Avoidance

Henrik Kniberg

Failure Recovery Failure Avoidance

#Purpose

#Autonomy

#Mastery

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LOOPSFuture Future

Culture eats strategy for breakfast

Finding your role models

Rituals strengthens your culture

Hire for talent and passion

5% is about the idea, 95% about the execution.Martin Lorentzon, founder of Spotify

For music

Questions?Johan Forshufvud

jf@spotify.com