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At the end of the 1980s, China's leaders came close to implementing the kind of economic shock therapy reforms that a few years later caused a social and economic catastrophe in the former Soviet Union and much of eastern Europe. A moment of enormous significance for Chinese and world history, Isabella Weber explains how and why China came to the brink of initiating an economic "big bang", and why ultimately the leadership chose to pursue a gradualist process of market reform instead.

Later this month Isabella will be taking part in the book's official launch, along with James Galbraith, Branko Milanović and Bin Wong. You can register here if you would like to attend:

https://tinyurl.com/4ybec9z2

How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber

Learn about Journey Mapping and how it relates to process improvement. Hint: it's a tool to bring the customer into the process, and it's super important for your bottom line. Brian Walsh, of Structured Empathy, is our guest.

S4E2: Process Improvement for (Not So) Dummies, "Journey Mapping"

Dr Pippa Malmgren @DrPippaM is an economist who explains the world economy in bestselling books and through public speaking, shapes the world economy by advising governments and builds it by having founded a robotics firm.

Propertyshe Podcast - Dr Pippa Malmgren

In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave Snowden at the Agile People conference in Stockholm, Sweden, about the addition of liminal spaces in the Cynefin framework, pre-scrum techniques and the future of agility 

Why listen to this podcast:

•	The Cynefin Framework provides a perspective on the world 
•	The latest version of the Cynefin framework include two liminal domains
•	The strength of approaches like Scrum is holding things in a liminal state long enough to become right, before they move to complicated
•	In the complex domain the keys are identifying coherent hypotheses and running parallel safe-to-fail experiments
•	There is a whole body of techniques for addressing IT problems and there is no one right answer – use the techniques best suited to the nature of the problem

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Dave Snowden on Liminality in Cynefin and Moving Beyond Agile to Agility

With a pandemic raging around the world, how can you and your agile team make sense of the world around you and adjust accordingly? The Cynefin framework gives you a way to categorise known and unknown information and figure out how to approach and change your work appropriately. We describe the framework (including how to pronounce Cynefin!) and explain how you might use it to help your agile team cope and even thrive in a challenging environment.

SHOW LINKS:
- The Cynefin framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
- Detailed Cynefin drawing by Edwin Stoop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework#/media/File:Cynefin_framework_by_Edwin_Stoop.jpg
- James Gleick Chaos book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos:_Making_a_New_Science

Episode transcript: https://www.conversationaltransformation.com/posts/cynefinsensemaking/

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Cynefin: Sense-Making in a Time of Turmoil

Ben and James discuss Dithering, how Spotify is like Facebook, and a bit about working from home.

Links

<ul>
<li>Ben Thompson &amp; John Gruber: Dithering — <a href="https://dithering.fm/">Dithering</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: Dithering and Open Versus Free — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2020/dithering-and-the-open-web/">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: The Daily Update Podcast — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2020/the-daily-update-podcast/">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: Spotify's Podcast Aggregation Play — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2019/spotifys-podcast-aggregation-play/">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: America Wakes Up?, An Interview with Matt Mullenweg About Working From Homey — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2020/america-wakes-up-an-interview-with-matt-mullenweg-about-working-from-home/">Stratechery Daily Update</a></li>
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<li>Ben Thompson, <a href="http://twitter.com/benthompson">@benthompson</a>, <a href="http://stratechery.com">Stratechery</a></li>
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Episode 185 — Open, Free, and Spotify

Squirrel tells the story of an agile team faced with seemingly irresistible demands, and describes how switching to the "Yes, And" stance (originating from improvisational theatre) helped them find a solution that worked for everyone.

SHOW LINKS:
- "Yes, And" in improv and brainstorming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and…
- CTO Craft: How to Talk with Your CEO and Other Mysteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwg-x5X3450
- Dr. Burns's Disarming Technique: https://feelinggood.com/tag/disarming-technique/
- Our MIT Sloan Management Review article on the Walled Garden: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/solving-the-problem-of-siloed-it-in-organizations/
- Nonviolent communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
- Six thinking hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

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"Yes, And..."

Troubleshooting Agile is a problem-solving session for agile teams. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel look at common problems agile teams face and provide practical, immediately useful advice for getting back on track.