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Mike Burrows - The Importance Of Focusing On Outcomes


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Agendashift founder and Agendashift Academy co-founder Mike Burrows is the author of Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition March 2021), Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020), and the Lean-Agile classic Kanban from the Inside (2104).

Mike is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban and for his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy.

Past leadership roles include global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and interim delivery manager on two of the UK Government Digital Services ‘exemplar’ projects.

What Scott discusses with Mike Burrows:

  • Why Mike switched to focusing on outcomes over values
  • How people get very excited and distracted by problems 
  • Why people fall in love with their own solutions
  • Outcomes before solutions and outcomes over outputs
  • The key elements of a strategy
  • The difference between outside in strategy and inside out strategy
  • And much more...

Links in this episode

  • Agendashift: https://www.agendashift.com/
  • Agendashift Academy: https://academy.agendashift.com/leading-with-outcomes
  • Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation: https://amzn.to/3vtQGdr
  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: https://amzn.to/3SenCA7
  • Four Disciplines of Execution: https://amzn.to/3OHi5PD
  • Right to Left: https://amzn.to/3Jp6Pqb
  • Servant Leadership: https://amzn.to/3JjF3LH
  • Host Leadership: https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_mckergow_host_leadership_why_hosting_is_an_important_type_of_leadership

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