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Nov 2022
22m 10s

Guest Jon Smart: Organizing for Outcomes

A weekly problem-solving session for all things agile
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It is easy to see our dominant organizational structure of teams divided by roles as natural. But Jon Smart, author of the book Sooner, Safer, Happier, points out that this goes against 1.9 million years of evolution. In this podcast Jon and Jeffrey discuss the link between the outcomes we’re getting and how we organize, and thus how changing our organizatio ... Show More
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