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151: Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson

Joe Krebs speaks with Maureen McCarthy and Zelle Nelson about the Blueprint of We, a relationship design process, that is a result of managing life with a rare genetic lung disease.

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149: Coco Decrouppe

Joe Krebs speaks with Coco Descrouppe about reaching full potential relationships with the Soccer Field Method. We touch on the individual, pair, and team space and use the metaphor of a soccer field to explore the various areas. Spoiler, there is a heart in the middle of the field, not a circle. Find out why in this episode.

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148: Oscar Roche

Joe Krebs speaks with Oscar Roche about Kata being the starting point of the continuous improvement journey, rather than the goal. They found inspiration in an article by Steven Spears and H.Kent Bowen from 1999 titled Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System and Oscar’s hands-on experiences.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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147: Dan Roman and Richard Sheridan

Joe Krebs speaks with Dan Roman and Richard Sheridan about using Agile Kata as a team process. Although not formalized, "run the experiment" is a common term at Menlo Innovations when they use Agile Kata-esque ways of working when they engage with their customers.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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146: Mark Rosenthal

Joe Krebs speaks with Mark Rosenthal about Kata and Adaptive Leadership, overcoming obstacles and a very personal leadership story shared by Mark.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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144: Tilo Schwarz

Joe Krebs speaks with Tilo Schwarz about the Coaching Kata and his new book "Giving Wings to Her Team" which Tilo co-authored with Jeffrey Liker.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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143: Jeffrey Liker

Joe Krebs speaks with Jeffrey Liker about the second edition of his best-selling book Toyota Way, which added scientific thinking to the core of the original 4P’s. He shares how Kata enables scientific thinking and can be applied across all industries.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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142: Katie Anderson

Joe Krebs speaks with Katie Anderson about her book "Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn" and how the Agile Kata relates to topics in her book, such as Learning, Culture and continuous improvement at Toyota.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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141: Jim Huntzinger

Joe Krebs speaks with Jim Huntzinger about how the origin of behavioral patterns and the history of Kata and TWI. Jim is also the organizer of the KataCon, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024.

Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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140: Kelly Mallery

Joe Krebs speaks with Kelly Mallery about 4 elements of the book "Bringing Scientific Thinking to Life" by Sylvain Landry. Scaling the Agile Kata across all levels in an organization, Agile Kata Mindset and Agile Kata Coaching. Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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139: Melissa Perri

Joe Krebs speaks with Melissa Perri about how to use the Agile Kata to overcome "The Build Trap", a topic she wrote a book about in 2018. They talk about Scrum, the role of a Product Owner, all in the context of products and Agile Kata. Joe has a book “Agile Kata” in the making, if you like to be the first to know when it launches, please visit www.agilekatabook.com.

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138: Keith McCandless

Joe Krebs speaks Keith McCandless about the power of Liberating Structures. We talked about the time leading up to his famous book about Faciliation, which he co-authored with Henri Lipmanowicz. We talked about a few of the 33 patterns in his book but also touched on new ones, that will make it into the next book.

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137: Jacopo Romei

Joe Krebs speaks Jacopo Romei about Extreme Contracts, a topic Jacopo has is frequently speaking about. He also authored the book “Extreme Contracts” which is soon to be released in English. You can already enjoy the first 3 chapters by downloading it here.

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136: Jurgen Appelo

Joe Krebs speaks with Jurgen Appelo about Unfix, a pattern catalog for organizational change and agility he created. Learn about the motivation of patterns over frameworks and how they are being used to create your own “buffet-style” solutions.

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135: Jim Highsmith

Joe Krebs speaks with Jim Highsmith about his book Wild West to Agile that is his historic memoir of his last 60 years of work.

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134: Klaus Leopold

Joe Krebs speaks with Klaus Leopold about his Flight Levels Model and Business Agility. Klaus Leopold is a well known author and speaker in the Kanban community.

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133: Staffan Nöteberg

Joe Krebs speaks with Staffan Nöteberg about Monotasking, personal and team productivity, and the psychological research that led to the monotasking method.

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132: Jeff Gothelf

Joe Krebs speaks with Jeff Gothelf about OKR's (Objectives and Key Results) and what it means for Agile Leaders and Agile Teams. He also shared the common thread of topics that touch his books and blogposts and why he is so passionate about OKR’s.

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