Summary:

 

In this episode of HTAT, our guest Klaus Leopold - originator of the Flight Levels approach - takes us through the what, why and how of applying his Flight Levels approach.

 

Klaus explains that this is NOT a scaling framework so much as it is a thinking model to overcome the limits of local optimization approaches (sub-optimization) by focusing on three levels (upstream from the team operational level). It's an effort to connect and align the work of an organization from strategy to execution through iteration and continual improvement.

 

Referencing real-life examples from a German engineering organization, Klaus describes how his approach came to be and continues to evolve.