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16 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
X : Regarding your culture map
Me : This?
X : Yes
Me : It's imperfect (being a map) and wrong (being a model) but hopefully, it's useful.
X : Not my point. It's the axis ...
... I thought the axis was genesis, custom, product and commodity?
Me : Technically, the axis is stage 1, 2, 3 and 4. I just add labels from the analysis that defined the stages because "stages" are fairly meaningless to most.

You can mix and match any of the labels,
X : Mix and match?
Me : Yep, pick any one from stage 1, any one from stage 2 etc. The stages remain the same, the characteristics of the stages remain the same, the axis remains the same. These are just labels.
X : I like how describing the same things using the four vertical labels hints at the underlying character by implication, rather than getting hung up on the words
Me : It's all in the cheat sheet.

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16 Jan
X : Do you not like any Conservatives?
Me : Of course I do. Being Old Labour (Socialist), I have a closer affinity to many One Nation Tories than I do with Blairites, Thatcherites or Communists. Vice versa One Nation. We value the market as a tool, society matters more.
X : So you think the current One Nation Gov is ok?
Me : Most of the One Nation Conservatives were kicked out of the party. Largesse with the Gov purse in a "Chumocracy" is not what Disraeli meant by "One Nation".
X : I don't understand the point you're making?
Me : Both parties - Labour and Conservative - have tended to be broad churches. You'll often find agreement within groups from multiple parties and infighting between groups within a party.
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14 Jan
Hmmm...

DevOps, it's culture not cloud.
Agile, it's culture not project methodology.
Open Source, it's culture not sharing code.
Cloud Native, it's culture not containers.

Ok, define culture. No hand waving allowed.

->
To explain the issue, all of these memes are a collection of practices, some of which are universally useful principles (think doctrine) whilst many are context specific. Even those universally useful ones (doctrine) barely scratch the surface of what culture is.
There is a reason why anthropologists have tried to define culture for over 100 years and still not come to an agreement.

Is it
a) they're lazy
b) they're daft
c) it's bloody hard.
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14 Jan
X : We need to adapt to our new reality.
Me : A question?
X : Should we start with organisation or operating model first?
Me : Neither. Start with doctrine i.e. basic principles of your company. This will lead you to landcape which will lead you to structure + operating model.
X : Don't we need to get the structure right though?
Me : Structure against what? If you don't understand the landscape that you operate in then how do you structure around it? How do you decide what your operating model is? Awareness comes first and that needs those principles.
X : Explain?
Me : Pretend you're running a tea shop (I'm a Brit, I like tea shops). First thing you need to do is to know who your users are - the public, the business for example (there are more like regulators etc).
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14 Jan
Well, this is an opportunity for the Gov to show whether they really are "One Nation Tories" (don't hold your breath) or not. Executives and consultants planning "fire and hire" whilst key workers are going into COVID homes to help people .... not good, disgraceful ->
A reasonable response would be

1) Demand the names of the consultants involved and blacklist the firms from any Gov contracts for two years.

2) Insist the executive make reparations, to freeze all dividend payments for a set period or face that nationalisation chat.
One of the benefits of brexit, is we now have "national sovereignty" i.e. there is no EC preventing us (or to hide behind) from doing what needs to be done.

There is no reason for Gov not to get involved in what is clearly a breach of social contract.
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14 Jan
The strength of any society is not measured through its wealth, its art, its buildings but by how it treats its poorest and those in need of help.

Greed is measured though the collection of things. Strength is measured though our mutual love and respect for each other.
This is enshrined in the stories we tell every child - "to steal from the rich, to give to the poor" ... it's embedded in our national psyche. It's why we find it so offensive that these companies exploit the poor in a pandemic. There should be no softness from Gov over this.
These companies should just be told that they are a national disgrace in a national emergency caused by the pandemic, they have broken the social contract and Gov is nationalising them with immediate effect with no compensation.
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13 Jan
X : You don't like McKinsey?
Me : Gosh, that's astute of you. I thought my venom was a well kept secret.
X : Why McKinsey?
Me : It's not. I view all those large firms as parasites. It's why (when I used to do stuff with Gov) that I wanted a blanket ban on management consultants.
X : Are you working in Gov today?
Me : No. I do a tiny bit of voluntary help.
X : Will you ever?
Me : Unlikely. The conditions would have to be right.
X : Such as?
Me : Make @liammax a Lord, put him in charge of the Cab Office and then I'll bring my brand of Rottweiler Mapping (the destroyer of undeserved value) to Gov. Oh gosh, I do have a bone to pick with so many companies who have clearly taken the Michael over the pandemic.
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