John Cutler: Octopus Careers & Throwaway Stickies with Chris Butler. Chris embraces the mess like few people I’ve met. Defying categorization in his career path, inventing models and techniques for collaboration and sense-making, he’s well versed in engineering, design and product, and figuring out how to challenge the status quo in big companies. (more)

John Cutler: Sociotechnical Maestros with Gene Kim. I recently finished reading Gene's latest book Wiring the Winning Organization which he co-wrote with Steven Spear. The themes of slowification, simplification, and amplification have already started to seep into my day-to-day conversations. The book is filled with case studys, but also creative metaphors like Gene and Steven moving a couch, which is where our chat starts. (more)

The management by wandering around (MBWA), also management by walking around,[1] refers to a style of business management which involves managers wandering around, in an unstructured manner, through their workplace(s) at random, to check with employees, equipment, or on the status of ongoing work.[1] The emphasis is on the word wandering as an unplanned movement within a workplace, rather than a plan where employees expect a visit from managers at more systematic, pre-approved or scheduled times... The origin of the term has been traced to executives at Hewlett-Packard whose management practices involved walking around the facility... The management consultants Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman used the term in their 1982 book In Search of Excellence.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_wandering_around (more)

see Management By Walking Around

Toyota Production System: Lean Manufacturing

AutoMobile maker associated with Lean Manufacturing: Toyota Production System/TPS (more)

Bundle of related links/thoughts I need to flesh out... (more)

Just re/discovered the Map Of The Complexity Sciences - ooh it's a clickable image-map. By Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits (more)

Alistair Cockburn idea of recognizing that different Projects have different constraints, and therefore each needs it own methodology/process. (more)

The Agile Product Development equivalent of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose? (more)

ebook from John Cutler/Dotwork to help product leaders operationalize the product operating model in their unique context. https://www.dotwork.com/product-operating-model (more)

In Agile Product Development, the Product Team is key: need Agility, Context, and Team Agency (more)

Martin Cagan framing of agile product development process (actually he says "it's a conceptual model, not a process"); typically requires transformation, see (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined, POM Starter Pack; cf Product-Led

The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002,[1] that describes three notably offensive but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.[2][3][4][5] Each of these personality types is called dark because each is considered to contain malevolent qualities. All three dark triad traits are conceptually distinct although empirical evidence shows them to be overlapping. They are associated with a callous–manipulative interpersonal style.[9] (more)

person with narcissism

Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others.[1][2] Named after the Greek mythological figure Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection, narcissism has evolved into a psychological concept studied extensively since the early 20th century, and it has been deemed highly relevant in various societal domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine[4][5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.[6] He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

Florence (/ˈflɒrəns/ FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ⓘ)[a] is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in its metropolitan province as of 2025.[2] Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era.[4] It is considered by many academics[5] to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence (more)

NotebookLM generating notes. Yes, collaborative groups of thinkers have frequently instigated significant technological and political changes throughout history, operating through various mechanisms such as shared vision, informal roles, rebellion against established norms, and instrumental intimacy. (more)

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a forge, or a brewery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery