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Some people believe linking to Wikipedia is bad practice, but I disagree. I'd rather link directly to a topic that is continuously being improved than referring to part of a dead tree that is hard to obtain because it is either expensive or out of stock. -- Jurgen Appelo
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A complex system benefits from not following the same practices over and over again. By enduring a little bit of stress and continuously adapting to variability in the environment, the system learns to become fitter and healthier. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Before you try to measure someone else's performance, please explain how you measure your own. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Motivation is a fine example of social complexity. It is nonlinear and sometimes unpredictable. It cannot be defined or modeled with a single diagram. -- Jurgen Appelo
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The hardest part of continuous improvement in organizations is changing the behavior of other people. -- Jurgen Appelo
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a management practice is a good practice when: It engages people and their interactions; It enables them to improve the system; It helps to delight all clients. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Management is 5% instruction and 95% communication. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Shareholder value is an outcome - not a strategy" [BusinessWeek 2009]. -- Jurgen Appelo
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As a change agent it is important to value all discussions, the good ones and the bad ones. Because, when people criticize what you're doing, it means they care about the topic. -- Jurgen Appelo
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The world is too complex to give you merely a list of practices to follow. What managers in the 21st century need most is insight so that they can develop their own prescriptions for their own particular needs -- Jurgen Appelo
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Innovation is not only useless without people but it's also useless without implementation. -- Jurgen Appelo
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To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking. -- Jurgen Appelo
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One conclusion is becoming more and more evident: The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people, to make sure that they actually want to do all that stuff. And doing all that stuff requires motivation. -- Jurgen Appelo
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The lack of short-term stress results in a lack of long-term health. When you always protect a human body from harm, you grow it to be fragile. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Healthier organizations are possible when you stop comparing them with machines and, instead, compare them with communities. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy. -- Jurgen Appelo
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The ultimate test of agility is whether you can keep all your stakeholders happy. -- Jurgen Appelo
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when organizations adopt Agile practices, it is imperative that team leaders and development managers learn a better approach to leading and managing their teams. -- Jurgen Appelo
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One important insight is that all organizations are networks. People may draw their organizations as hierarchies, but that doesn't change that they are actually networks. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Your career is your own responsibility. Your employer is not your mother. -- Jurgen Appelo
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Seriously, I don't see the difference between blaming the system and blaming other people. It seems to me it's all the same, as long as workers are not blaming themselves! -- Jurgen Appelo
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There's no shortcut to an optimized whole and no complex system will ever really be optimal. -- Jurgen Appelo