perpetual beta — our new normal – Harold Jarche
As you move along the spectrum, you’re increasingly likely to work in a team, lean on experts, and invest much more time in the process.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
“Each change, each innovation is considered to be the new normal, a new steady state when in fact the new normal is a state of continual innovation.”
Josh Seiden • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
To stay relevant and competitive, professionals and enthusiasts alike must adopt a mindset of continuous learning.
ModernMind Publications • Generative AI for Beginners Made Easy: Master Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals, Learn Creative AI, and Enhance Your Skills With Interactive Real-World Exercises
Agility needs to emerge in an agile way. Empowerment, experimentation, respect for people, self-determination, learning, everybody bringing their brains to work and continuously improving how they do what they do, are core tenets of an agile and lean mindset. The work itself is emergent and so is improving the system of work for that work.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
There’s a certain comfort in the realm of infinite possibility. When a project is ongoing, it can be anything. It’s Schrödinger’s1 project — simultaneously perfect and flawed until you actually finish it and put it out into the world. The moment you declare a project “done,” you open it up to criticism, both external and internal. What if it’s not ... See more
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
“Infinite-minded leaders understand that “best” is not a permanent state. Instead, they strive to be “better.” “Better” suggests a journey of constant improvement and makes us feel like we are being invited to contribute our talents and energies to make progress in that journey.”
-Simon Sinek
Keeping yourself in “permanent beta” makes you acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s more testing to do on yourself, and that you will continue to adapt and evolve. It means a lifelong commitment to continuous personal growth. It is a mind-set brimming with optimism because it celebrates the fact that you have the power to improve yourself a
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