If there is a riddle here it’s this: why, after millennia of constructing and disassembling forms of hierarchy, did Homo sapiens – supposedly the wisest of apes – allow permanent and intractable systems of inequality to take root? Was this
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“Scrum is about whole people, not about skills. Scrum is not I, but We. It is about sharing, learning, continuous improvement, vibrant interaction, passionate collaboration, and personal growth. Scrum is about tribes, it is about building community. Each tribal member needs a sense of belonging, a personal quest.”
― The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation
― The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation
“Addicted to the short-term results, business today has largely become a series of quick fixes added on one after another after another. The short-term tactics have become so sophisticated that an entire economy has developed to service the manipulations, equipped with statistics and quasi-science. Direct marketing companies, for example, offer calculations about which words will get the best results on each piece of direct mail they send out.”
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“Another way of looking at it might be to say that scrum doesn’t actually do anything; people do things.”
― The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation
― The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation
“Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank—but that’s not the same thing. —Joseph Conrad”
― Wonder Boys
― Wonder Boys
“Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, “It’s too soon to tell.”
― Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
― Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution
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