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Lean Procrastination

The TrustArtist's Guide to a Mindful and Whole-Hearted Organisation

For leaders embracing Uncertainty Who want to shape a better future Lean Procrastination Amplifies a positive view of Growth Unlike approaches that try to predict the future Lean Procrastination provides Emergent Options And extends an enterprise's flow of value To Decision, Narrative and Relational Flow

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Lean Procrastination helps and amplifies personal and tribal flourishing. We focus on positivity and effectiveness.

Practitioners of Lean Procrastination are proficient in Temenos, Cynefin and Real Options. Temenos gives us individual and shared purpose and fosters authentic connections. Cynefin enables us to make sense of our environments and use strategies that fit our context to achieve our purpose. Real Options help us be conscious of our choices, make sensible decisions, and remove coercion of our language and systems.

We aim for whole-hearted organisations, where every human being loves what she does and is loved for what she does. Organisations that achieve not only economic, yet also relational flow.  

We understand that true transformation, achievement of a break-through culture, requires positive disintegration and continual challenge of the status quo.

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Olaf Lewitz

You deserve to love what you do.

Olaf Lewitz is the Trust Artist and a Certified Enterprise Coach.

Olaf Lewitz’ purpose is to increase freedom of choice in the world. Olaf provides safe spaces for people to discover who they are and what they want, so that they make good choices. He’s been doing that for decades, as a boy scout leader, software developer, manager, consultant and coach, and found his calling in 2013 as the trust artist. Olaf believes we deserve to love what we do, and be loved for what we do. Olaf has hosted more than 100 Temenos experiences from hours to days, from a handful to hundreds of people. We want to share and improve with you how to create and hold these containers, to allow more people to discover a clarity of identity and choice. In our TrustTemenos Leadership Academy, we grow a generation of leaders who change organisations in the world into safe spaces for people to show up and to flourish in freedom.

Contents

Table of Contents

  • Quotes
  • Lean Procrastination
    • Our Vision
    • Buzzwords
    • We-Language
    • Skeptical?
    • Feedback
  • How To Read This Book
  • Structure (Plan)
  • The Shu-Ha-Ri model of Lean Procrastination
    • Basics
    • Drive—do it with Love
    • The Levels
    • Take away
    • Acknowledgements
  • A Betterness Landscape
    • Whole-Hearted Organisation: A Definition
    • How to get there: NO MODELS, NO RULES
  • Last Responsible Moment—A Mindset
    • Always Too Early
    • Last (Later)
    • Responsibility (For Your Options)
    • Moment(s)
    • Lean Procrastination
  • Real Options—a Mindset
    • Decisions and Commitments
    • Three Principles
    • Commitment and Risk
    • More Options?
  • When Is Uncertainty Hard?
  • Real Options and Complexity
    • Real Options are Attractors
    • Real Options as Safe-to-Fail Experiments
    • Real Options Help Explore the Potential of the Present
  • Validate Your Influence
    • Validated Influencing
    • Slides
    • Example Indicators and Tools
    • Inspiration
  • Deliberate Exaptation
  • Assume You Got It Wrong
    • Assume you don’t need to do it
    • Try to prove it doesn’t work
    • Start with error cases
  • Pretend It Works
  • Thoughts on Words
    • Resources
    • Waterfall
    • “Ideal” Days (Hours, …)
    • Engineering
    • Architecture
    • Change
    • Process
    • Models
  • Thoughts on Words: Project
    • Project
  • Thoughts on Words: Change
    • Change: Fearless? Hard?
    • Real Options: Explore Betterness
    • Life is Uncertainty
    • Risk Management
    • Gratitude
  • Bonus Tracks
  • Which Agile Fits Your Culture?
    • Get A Grip
    • Wake Them Up
    • Challenge Mindset, Not Culture
    • Related Posts
  • Executive Amazement
    • Crowd-Sourcing Strategy
    • Embracing and Keeping Emotions
    • Enabling Excellence
  • Coaching is a 100% client-focused conversation
    • What is Coaching?
    • Mapping Authority and Coaching
  • What is Agile Coaching?
    • Professional Coaching
    • Engagement
    • Minimum Required Skills
    • Guiding Principles
    • Related Posts
  • Spotting the Balance
    • Related Posts
  • Balance: Teaching vs. Coaching
    • What is Teaching?
    • What is Coaching?
    • Agile Coaching
    • Frames
    • Zoom in on the right problem
    • Switching Modes
    • Balancing
    • Knowledge Injection?
  • Why I Love the Linchpin Book
    • Start With Why
    • Judge By the Outcome
    • If Everyone…
    • Linchpin Is Viral
    • A Book For Everyone?
  • How To Organise a Conference
    • ALE2011
    • How We Started
    • Sofas
    • Tools
    • Current Plans
    • Anarchy with a Purpose—a Model for Emergent Awesomeness
    • The Purpose—Start With WHY
    • Pull Value Using Feature Injection
    • Balance Commitments using Real Options
    • Distributed Cognition, Avoiding a Backlog
    • Related Posts
  • ALE2011—The WHY: Vision and Purpose
    • What Did I Miss Before ALE?
    • Vision
    • What I Have Now
    • What I Wish For the Future
  • Kanban Considered Harmful? turned into Quality of Life
    • Kanban Considered Harmful?
    • Agile Adoption in the Large
    • Managing Management Expectations
    • Deception is Not the Point
    • Conversations and Truth
    • Is Deception Irrelevant?
    • Related Posts
  • Lead As If You Meant It
    • Inspiration and Values
  • Magnificence Mantra
  • People Like Us

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