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Haidt states that studies show that intergroup competition increases love of the in-group more than it increases dislike of the out-group. Intergroup competitions, such as friendly rivalries between divisions, or intramural sports competitions, should have a net positive effect on hivishness and social capital. But pitting individuals against each other for scarce resources (such asContinue reading “Exploring Hive Principal #3 Creating healthy competition between teams”

The actual words Haidt uses in The Righteous Mind are “Exploit synchrony.” Since Leadership often gets the rap of being exploitive of members of a team, I avoided using that term and replaced it with the more positive “Move Together.” He states that “People that move together are saying ‘We are one, we are aContinue reading “Exploring Hive Principal #2 Move Together”

Wow, this is another revelation by Haidt that is swimming against the current within our culture! The actual statement is “Increase similarity, not diversity” which is a goal statement which I have changed to an action statement “Build…” Haidt elaborates “To make a human hive, you want to make everyone feel like family.” He describesContinue reading “Exploring Hive Principle #1 – Build Similarity, not Diversity”

Let’s be honest, we all know that the key to success for any leader is the performance of the team. As leader I consumed many articles and books on building a high performing team, they all offered great advice on what to do or what not to do. In my attempts to follow, I wouldContinue reading “Three fool proof principles for building high performing teams”

SAFe has updated the LPM Competency and LPM Configuration practices based on the continued maturity of LPM. I have reviewed the updates and have pulled the changes together as they align to the 3 LPM Collaborations which aligns to the organization of the SAFe course delivery. These are nice improvements and align with the realContinue reading “SAFe updates LPM!”

SAFe has updated the LPM course and activities to align with the LPM article content. All of the updates reflect a maturity of the LPM Competency and the LPM practices. I have completed the course instructor validation and have updated the course activity templates in Mural to align with the course updates. Follow this LINKContinue reading “LPM 5.0.1 ready to run!”

In discussing the application of the SAFe Large Solution with other transformation coaches, I have realized that when a large organization is implementing SAFe for a significant transformation it is challenging to determine the boundaries of the Large Solution from the functions of the Lean Portfolio and Agile PMO. For a well functioning SAFe transformationContinue reading “Lessons in how to separate the Portfolio functions from the Large Solution”

Let’s take Solution Intent to the Enterprise level! From the view of Enterprise Architecture, an enterprise domain model connects the Enterprise Strategy and Enterprise Key Resources with Portfolio execution. The Enterprise Intent consists of a set of artifacts that are created and validated as the Enterprise Strategy is executed. With the creation of an EnterpriseContinue reading “What is Enterprise Intent?”

I was completing a self-retrospective after delivering the SAFe Lean Portfolio Management course and part of that was the satisfaction I felt that the students had obtained the LPM Competency with the wealth of information and a set of practices and techniques to implement LPM. I then turned my attention to preparations to deliver SAFeContinue reading “Concept for Operations for Lean Portfolio Mgmt Solution Intent”