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Peter Merel

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We listen as if crossing thin ice because change, uncertainty, and ambiguity are everywhere.

We test like a boat on dark water so that carelessness, haste and imbalance won't sink us.

We adapt like a stranger to a far shore to give and take what the market takes and gives.

We simplify like a melting snowflake because our systems grow as rigid and inefficient as one.

We connect as the deep woods to sustain continuous growth across cycles of change.

We lead as a valley does the river to quicken and join channels of mutual benefit.

We share as its silt feeds the fields to open bottlenecks and foster innovation.

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Peter Merel

Peter Merel is an Australian who contributed to formation of the Agile Alliance, the first Wikipedia wiki engine, and the "Dudeism" online cult. A working software engineer, poet and translator for three decades, Peter's current focus is XSCALE Alliance, the Linux of the Agile world. Peter has led agile transformations, startups and open source projects, and for a few years directed the Limpinwood Teahouse Theatre in the rainforest of Australia's Tweed caldera.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Agility

  1. 1. The River (xv)
  2. 2. Embracing Change (xxiii)
  3. 3. Stone Keel (xxvi)
  4. 4. The Rising Tide (v/viii/vii)
  5. 5. The Power Of Water (lxxviii)
  6. 6. The End of Agility (lxvii)
  7. 7. Open Hand (xlix)
  8. 8. Coiled Spine (xlv)
  9. 9. Quiet Mind (xxii/xxiv)
  10. 10. Human Nature (xxix/xxii)
  11. 11. Growing The Pie (xxxiii)

Connection

  1. 12. Ecosystems (lxi/xxxv)
  2. 13. The Bow (lxxvii)
  3. 14. Descaling (iii/xii)
  4. 15. Scaling (xxxviii/liv a)
  5. 16. Supplant Power (xxxviii/liv b)
  6. 17. Cultivating Trust (xxviii)
  7. 18. Nurture and Nature (liv)
  8. 19. Learning Ecosystems (li)
  9. 20. Supplanting Bureaucracy (xviii/xix)
  10. 21. Priests and Princes (xxxix/xxxii)
  11. 22. Power To Empower (xxxix/xxxii)

Leadership

  1. 23. Leadership as a Service (lxvi/lxxii)
  2. 24. Hungry Children (lxiii)
  3. 25. Carving Wood (xxvii)
  4. 26. Fire In Darkness (xl/xli)
  5. 27. Agile Leadership (xxxvii/xvii)
  6. 28. Humility (lxx)
  7. 29. Keeping Trust (lxxxi/lvi)
  8. 30. Fortress and Palace (lxviii/liii)
  9. 31. Profit And Power (ix/xii)
  10. 32. Autonomy In Alignment (lvii)
  11. 33. Without An Axe (lxxv/lxviii/lxxiv)

Adaptation

  1. 34. Detente (lxix/xlii)
  2. 35. Retreat (xliv)
  3. 36. Surrender (l)
  4. 37. Battle (xxxi)
  5. 38. Force (xxx)
  6. 39. Consequences (xlii/xliii)
  7. 40. Abiding (lviii)
  8. 41. Collaboration (xlv/xxxvi/lxix)
  9. 42. Softly, Softly (lxxiii)
  10. 43. Paying Forward (lxiv b/lxxix)
  11. 44. Horses (xlvi/lxiv b)

Simplification

  1. 45. Design (xlii/lxxvi)
  2. 47. Making It Easy (lxiii/lxiv a)
  3. 46. Continuous Learning (xlviii/xli)
  4. 55. Alignment (lxxx)
  5. 46. Delicate Fish (lix)
  6. 49. Harmony (lv)
  7. 49. Taking It Easy (xx)
  8. 50. Align Tyrants (lxii)
  9. 53. The Benefits Of Alignment (xxi/xxxv)
  10. 51. Empowering Community (lx)
  11. 54. Without Politics (lxv/lxiv)

Flow

  1. 57. Transformation (xi/x)
  2. 56. Intelligence (i)
  3. 59. The Cradle (xxv)
  4. 60. Harmony (iv/vii/vi/v)
  5. 60. Language (xiii/x)
  6. 61. Distinctions (ii)
  7. 62. Acceptance (lii)
  8. 63. The Now (xiv)
  9. 64. Blindness (xlvii/lxxi)
  10. 65. Breathing (xvi)
  11. 66. Meaning (xxxiv)

Explanations

  1. Before Agile
  2. Killing the Dude
  3. The Chinaman is not the issue here.
  4. How Lao Tzu rode to the West - and what he found there
  5. Meanwhile, in the East …
  6. From English To English
  7. On The Way

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