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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Currently working on Virbela on one screen (with a Miro board) whilst on the other screen Twitter + Teams displays incoming messages. The strange mix of virtual immersion and more "traditional" digital.

I think I'm going to need a third screen.
X : What do you need the third screen for?
Me : I like to compartmentalise flows of information. What I'm thinking is immersion (virbela, miro), traditional (twitter + teams) and legacy (email + video conferencing) divide.
X : You think zoom is legacy?
Me : First online conference that I took part in was around 2007. I know people are being forced into this world (due to the isolation economy) and yes, I find the tool useful ... hell, when it comes to tools, I even have Vim on my desktop but ...
... this is a journey and zoom is not the destination. I find it useful for myself to compartmentalise different flows of information, whether the divisions should be something else ... well, I'll adapt and adjust as we move along the path.

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19 Jan
"Fifty-nine percent of those polled said they believed China will become more powerful than the U.S. within 10 years" - politico.eu/article/1-in-3… ... I hate to break it to you but it already is in many areas.
When I published this work (originally from 2015) - - I did tend to get a lot of pushback from US folk when presenting it.

Six years later, less so. Image
I expect China to start to tackle inequality this year. It's the Achilles heel of the West. We have no response, nor Governments with the required skill, strategy or practice to respond.

We will ultimately face a more advanced, more wealthy and more equal society ...
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18 Jan
X : How do you change an organisation?
Me : New executive? Existing organisation?
X : Yes and yes
Me : Hit the ground running, you have 100 days to get things moving and overcome any existing inertia.
X : It has been 160 days.
Me : Get acquired?
X : Acquired?
Me : A new exec to hit the ground running. They have 100 days ...
X : Are you just saying that's it?
Me : You're part of the inertia. You could hire expensive change consultants. It'll make you feel good.
X : Not very helpful.
Me : Well, you're now the problem.
X : But look at Satya Nadella?
Me : Hit the ground running.
X : Jeff Bezos.
Me : Exception that proves the rule. It take incredible fortitude of will to do this, a singular strong and long term focus. Lots of people like to believe they have this, not many do.
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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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16 Jan
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.
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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.

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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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