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Welcome to Episode 74 of the enterprise excellence podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Dan Pink on the show today. Dan is the author of seven books! Four New York Times bestsellers, and one brand new book, just released. Today we'll talk about Dan's new book, The Power of Regret, How looking backward moves us forward. Let's get into the episode. 

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So I'll give you a few things. First of all, I think that these four core regrets: foundation, boldness, moral and connection, I actually think that they, along with giving us a pathway to the good life, I think that they are the components of a strong organisational culture. 

That is cultures that cohere, cultures where people feel a sense of psychological safety, where people are able to do great work are cultures where there is a foundation, where people do have a chance to act boldly, where people are doing the right thing, and where they are connected to other people. 

And so regret also gives us the building blocks of, I think, a coherent, powerful corporate culture. So that's it at a broad level. 

At a very, very tactical level, one of my favourite tips comes from Tina Seelig at Stanford University, who suggests that all business leaders should put together what she calls a failure resume. And a failure resume is, you know, we have all these resumes, saying what incredible people we are and the incredible jobs we've had, and the amazing things we've accomplished. 

A failure resume talks about all of your failures, setbacks and screw-ups, but it doesn't just leave it there. You, you have a resume of all your failures, but then you say, what did this teach me? And then what am I going to do about it? And so I think that that, that leaders, showing their failure resume, particularly how they can extract lessons from those failures, pointing forward, is a powerful, powerful thing, and everybody in organisations should give that a try.

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People, maintenance, reliability, folks, measures, problems, organisation, engage, leadership, approach, manufacturing plant, Deming, operation, distributors, support, create, thinking, business.

Welcome to Episode 73 of the enterprise excellence podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Mr Ron Moore back on the show with us today. Ron joined us last week in Episode 72, where he spoke about operational reliability and performance. We chatted about how leaders need to look at their business as a whole system rather than in silos. If you haven't already, I encourage you to listen to Episode 72 to get the background for this chat. Today we chat about engaging your team to align the whole organisation and jump on the bandwagon together. 

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1.     Align – As a leader working to create alignment of the organisation strategically, to a common purpose, vision and goals. Helping cross functional teams align systemically to ultimiately work together to improve towards that purpose and goal. 

2.     Leadership Leadership Leadership. We hear the importance of leadership through so many studies, books and experts. The importance comes as it is ultimately the leadership that does or does not apply enegery to creating strategic and cross functional alignment. It is leadership that will either take an approach that engages or disengages people as they deploy the strategy and changes required. Rons advice to start small and then support these small cross runctional teams to overcome challenges and recognise wins was great. Also Rons discussion around leadership behabiours such as the budget example was so important. How as a leader can you reflect on your behaviours and the systems you have in place within your organisations? How can you do this continuously to improve into the future. I recommend considering the retrospective approach out of Agile. Each day, week or month reflect back and write down what you should keep doing, stop doing and start doing moving forward to help your organisation achieve greater operational reliability and performance. Think heavily on the systems you have in place and what behaviours these are driving in your people and also your own behaviours as a leader. 

Thanks again for your time and knowledge Ron, thanks for helping us create a better future. Bye for now. 

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It is such a pleasure to have Mr Ron Moore on the show with us today. Ron is a leading expert in the fields of operational reliability and performance. He has written the books "What Tool When, a management guide for selecting the right improvement tools",  "Making Common Sense Common Practice" and many more. Ron is currently working with global fortune 500 companies helping them create a better future.  Let’s get into the episode. Ron thank you so much for joining us today. 

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10:03min And, you know, our fundamental mission, in my mind, was to help our customers be more successful. It wasn't about the watch or the instrument. It was, how do we help you get a better night's sleep? How do we help you improve your profitability? How do we help you solve your problems? So you're more successful? Because I always felt like if we made them successful? Well, we couldn't help but be successful. Yeah. So it was that kind of thinking that went into just about everything we did.

Well, that's the end of this episode with Ron.

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Well, you know, the big things at Scrum at Scale that make all the difference is we have an Enterprise Action Team, which is the management that is running a Scrum team. It's meeting every 15 minutes every day. Its job is to fix anything that's broken in the organisation, the same day or within a couple of days. That makes all the difference. 

We start the discussion around that. That's where you see things breaking down. And then, on the prioritisation side, we have this Meta Scrum. You say, people, what is this Meta Scrum? Well, the Meta Scrum is just the management, the product owners getting together and agreeing on implementing the product backlog that they can jointly agree on—and doing an app for the enterprise as a whole. 

And so the tip I would give is to get those pieces of Scrum at scale running. 

1. Analyse what value are you or are you not creating

Jeff mentioned that 30% of what most companies are creating delivers no value and could be stopped today. Within the organisations, I visit most people are flat out with not enough time in the day. This is a fast way to bring back focus on time. Jeff's story of what Steve Jobs did focusing the company on the right products and removing others when he came back to Apple as CEO was a great one.

2. Increase decision speed.

When Jeff mentioned that decision speed is a significant contributor to organisation success, I gained insight. When you are a small start-up organisation, decision speed is extremely fast. As you grow, many aspects of bureaucracy, poor systems and culture creep in that slows decision making speed. Scrum@Scale is a way to retain decision making speed and value focus as you scale.

Thanks again for your time and knowledge Jeff, thanks for helping us create a better future.

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Welcome to episode 70 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Dr Jeff Sutherland back on the show with us today. Jeff and Ken Schwaber are the founders of Scrum or Agile, as many call it. Jeff is the author of the best selling book Scrum – the art of doing twice the work in half the time and A scrum book, the spirit of the game. Jeff is back on the show with us today to talk about Scaling Scrum and creating an Agile organisation using Scrum@Scale. Jeff has had a fantastic career which you can learn about on Episode 6 of the Podcast. Let's get into the episode. Jeff, thank you so much for joining us again today.

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These additional value offerings more than cover the cost of a course. We have also optimised the community approach to minimise time impact on members. The community runs for two hours each month via Zoom. The first hour is training and Q&A on a key topic with one of our world's experts. The second hour enables us to collaborate and help each other on our excellence journey. Help each other sustain focus, overcome challenges and move forward. You will also be able to progress forward and become an Agile Education Program trainer in the future and help others more broadly create a better future. The Enterprise Excellence Academy and Podcast is a social enterprise; profits go to charities that help socially, economically or environmentally create a better future for our world. 

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02:25min An Agile team is only a piece of that picture, a very small piece. Having agile teams in IT does not make you a winner. The whole organisation has to be agile in today's environment.

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Welcome to episode 69 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a please to have Diana Jones back on the show with us today.  

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Would it be the leaders to be able to really move forward? Based on what you've written in your book? What would be that short, sharp tip you'd give? 

I think the key is to stop being a creature of habit and be a creature of purpose. Essentially and I mean, leaders are asked to do this all the time, really find your why, begin with the end of mind, but like that, really, that is the key is to keep refreshing that because so many people have said this for such a long time, you know, changes, familiar change is constant. 

Well, it's true. And the last two years have been significant in terms of our ability to get together and to get together with who we chose. And it's just made radical differences. And of us being online. Like enabling you and I to have this conversation so easily together, without having to get on a plane and travel for a day or so. Yeah, travel across the ditch. Yeah, just across the ditch. It is. Also, it makes it easy, being able to work electronically, but electronic doesn't ever replace human interactions. So it's really learning how to create the human interaction. And it's been willing to stop being a creature of habit and really being willing to learn what's required now, which is a new way of relating. 

And people who are coming back to work and are coming back to face to face work are not going to tolerate boring meetings. They're not going to tolerate being in groups with people they don't want to be with. And so, leaders are going to have to do something that really makes people want to be together and want to work together and want to produce together. Yeah, so that's the challenge. And that's my two minutes tip. Thank you reflect and learn continuously. That's powerful. Yeah. 

Thanks again for your time and knowledge Diana, thank you for helping us create a better future.

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Welcome to episode 68 of the enterprise excellence Podcast. It is such a please to have Diana Jones on the show with us today. Diana is an author, trainer and coach in the fields of leadership. Diana is focused on helping leaders and teams shift their behaviours to connect relevantly for powerful results and sought after cultures. Diana's new book Leadership Levers – Realising the power of relationships for exceptional participation, alignment and team results has just been released. Let's get into the episode. Diana, thank you so much for joining us today.

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14:09min Leaders have got their arms around their content, and information and logic and all that kind of stuff, where actually, it's the way they can help people interact with one another that is at the core. So by taking their foot off the brake, they really learn how to work with groups, and how to work with people. And it is a learnable thing. It's just that none of the business schools have adequately approached it. 

What a great episode. Thank you, Diana, so much for your time. I've gained so much knowledge already. Come back next week for episode 69 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast, where we delve into Diana's new book, Leadership Levers, further and a lot of her learnings that will help us all create a better future. Bye for now.

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Merry Christmas Everyone :) We hope that you and loved ones have a fun, safe and kindly Christmas with your family and friend. And here's to a wonderful Happy New Year and 2022.

This is our final episode of the year number 67. And we just thought we'd finished the year, just prior to Christmas with a wrap up of our year and the key insights that we've had this year.

Our final podcast of Season 2 hard to believe! 

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"But next year, we are going to be working on, we're doing large scale planning at the moment, on a whole new offering to enable training where, training and enterprise excellence and key elements of Agile and Lean can be done widely and at low cost, so that people can get on training. 

But I think the thing that's exciting with it is looking at how do we build a community where we can bring back our world's experts to provide this community knowledge and insight to help their journeys keep going, but also establish peer to peer support?  Where a group of like minded leaders and practitioners of excellence can gather and actually support each other too. Because half the battle with these journeys is being able to overcome challenges and keep the energy up and gain the support because it can be tough. You know, I mentioned three things there today. And it's It seems simple, but it's it's not easy. And so I think that's exciting. I think this is a way that we'll be able to help a lot more people and a lot more organizations more broadly using some of the great outcomes of COVID which is our use of virtual technology."

Till next year, bye for now. Our first episode for Season 3  is back on January 10th, 2022. Merry Christmas!

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Welcome to Episode 66 of the enterprise excellence Podcast. I'm so pleased to have you with me here today, Mr Neal Jorgensen. We're doing this interview in person. Neil has a big background in marketing, chairing ADMA in Queensland, continuous improvement, innovation and marketing, and then on into continuous improvement within many organisations, helping them achieve an improvement journey both culturally and systematically.  Today, we're focusing on bringing continuous improvement into the office, which is a topic we haven't covered too much. Neil, thanks for joining us today.

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Probably the most important thing that I've learned, and, you know, I haven't worked in a scenario where the focus has been so completely on continuous improvement and getting it in there. We've always had to embed that type of approach whilst doing our other normal work.  

So I think the big tip is to really get in and understand what are the challenges and drivers, the positive and negative consequences for people doing their jobs in the areas you're focusing on? Wow. So you know, is there a risk of embarrassment? Where are the real pain points for them about doing their job? 

And, with that is looking at what their interaction is with their internal stakeholders or internal customers. Do they understand what their internal customers really want from them? And are they trying their hardest to deliver that? And a lot of that really, you know, involves focusing specifically on what those people do as part of their job. And before you even go about improving it, you have to really have, you know, some aspect of understanding with them about what their job actually is. 

Yeah, that's neat. So in a way, you're saying, mate, really hone in on that Gemba piece. You might know those discipline areas you want to bring in or that you've got your kit bag to bring in. But go to Gemba. Understand and then go back to the kit bag for what do we need to become more disciplined with to help them help themselves then? Yeah, that's right, and in leadership above.

Thanks again for your knowledge and time Neil, thanks for helping us create a better future. Bye for now. 

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People, organisations, lean, economic, green, create, environmental, world, environment, Womack, planet, big, saved, driven, companies, purpose, helped.

Welcome to episode 65 of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast. It is such a pleasure to have Dr Keivan Zokaei back on the episode to talk with us about one of the best books I have ever read. It is a book that showed the clear win-win between my two passions, business and environmental improvement. Creating a Lean and Green Business System, written by Keivan, is a book truly about creating a better future with many compelling case studies. Let's get into the episode. 

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32:38min I think, make it a reason for yourself. Give yourself, do yourself a favour. It's about believing in it personally, having a purpose, and making your own life a bit more purposeful. And it's something that you care about, and rest assured others will also care about it. Others will see right through your passion and will believe in it, and will join the journey with you. And of course, in the beginning, we will have a few small setbacks and ups and downs, such is life. But ultimately, look at all these other people who've managed to accomplish great feats. That's not even two minutes. That's probably 10 seconds if you like. It starts with us, each one of us personally. ,

I can see that the bigger purpose and the bigger drive to something like leaning green will help you through some of the tougher times, I'm sure. 

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There were two key takeaways for me from this episode.

1. The win-win between economic, ethical and environmental gains. For so long, the perception has been that you can have environmental and social gains, but there is a cost economically. Companies adopting a Lean and Green Continuous Improvement approach prove a clear win-win outcome can be achieved. 

 2. The alignment of environmental, safety, quality and economic gains within an organisation. They are all achieved the same way. There is massive potential for the people in these roles within organisations to align, unify their effort, and help their organisations achieve a culture of continuous improvement for themselves, others, and the planet. 

Thanks again for your time and knowledge Keivan, thanks for helping us create a better future.

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