61st of 100

The second of my coffee companions today helps organisations become more (little ‘a’) agile.

We talked about:

how the Elizabeth Line’s changing of my mental model of London resulted in me being quite early
the way in which new technologies often get introduced in remarkably sub-optimal ways and how it takes time for the world to catch up to them
diesel steam engines
how there are so many cognitive biases that it’s hard to know where to start
the power of metaphors in explaining difficult concepts
the danger of bad metaphors extending confusion
flywheels, and how they might make transformational change harder
partial metamorphosis (like a grasshopper) and total metamorphosis (like a butterfly) and how that maps to incremental continual improvement and fundamental transformation
if organisations can transform without an existential threat?
The Cynefin Framework
Clocks and clouds