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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
design: @zachnies artwork:@jeantabaka
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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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Where am I?
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Thank you
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Jean Tabaka @jeantabaka
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