Some organizations become a “self-licking ice cream cone.” This is a system that exists only to sustain itself. It will never achieve any meaningful outcomes. These entities justify their existence...
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AGLX Launches In Singapore
We are very excited to announce that AGLX Asia Pacific has now opened an office in Singapore. Zhen Goh joins our team as Managing Director and will lead our work from the Singapore Office. Zhen has...
5R Solutions is a New Zealand company specialising in window glass recovery. Their reprocessing sites in Auckland and Christchurch process tens of thousands of tonnes of glass each year, producing...
Below is an excerpt from a detailed case study titled Innovation at Watercare Services, co-authored by Apra Boyle-Gotla, Head of Innovation at Watercare and AGLX Managing Director, Steve McCrone. ...
While Social Distancing is used as a constraint to slow the flow of the novel coronavirus, the flow of (dis)information through our distributed social networks is susceptible to a new kind of...
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
Chances are you have never picked up and read his Aerial Attack Study—an Air Force official document that codified aerial maneuvers for pilots interested in dominating their opponents in air-to-air...
John Boyd’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop is often associated with fighter aviation where a human straps on a machine (fighter aircraft) and competes against another human-machine system in...
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Planning Sessions and Daily Scrums, TOPGUN Style
Back in 2014, when the July 2013 Scrum Guide was current and before the book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time was published, a group of former TOPGUNs sat in an Atlanta-area...
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Constraint-Led Approach (CLA) and the OODA Loop
I was introduced to Constraint-Led Approach a few weeks ago during the Navy’s Complexity Workshop. At the workshop, I was shown the book, Constraint-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and...
Gouge: Lexicon borrowed from fighter aviation used to describe the essential lessons, tricks of the trade, skinny or poop, or inside scoop on what really matters. If you had one page to show the...
“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” -Stephen Hawking I’m happy to share that a grassroots effort to embrace complexity and complex adaptive systems thinking is underway...
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High-Performance Teams: What the Research Says
The Oxford Review recently published a special report on High-Performance Teams now available on oxford-review.com. From 8,100 peer reviewed research papers, Dr. David Wilkinson and his team...