This case study follows the cultural management process of SA Water Corporation, a public utility company in the Australian state of South Australia, for the decade 2000 to 2010. It is a journey that saw SA Water transform from a department of the publ…
The Danger Zone: When Leaders Lose Site of their impact
When accusatory, emotive and vitriolic language is used by people in power, red warning lights go on all over the place and sirens blare.A Huffington Post article recently stated that the ongoing behaviour of Donald #Trump has reset ‘accept…
Improving Accountability in your organisation
Walking the Talk’s Founder Carolyn Taylor explains some of the tips to improve accountability within your organisation.
How agile is your organisation?
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Barclays ABSA acquisition – culture development plan and communications
This white paper describes how Steve Lennon, from Walking the Talk’s Consulting Partner Arup, used the Walking the Talk methodology to help Barclays Bank in the U.K. and South Africa achieve a synergistic key acquisition 18 months faster th…
Pedagogy v Andragogy
Last week I attended a gin tasting event. The next day I participated in Street Wisdom. The first was chosen for me, the second I opted into. The gin tasting was in a bare room, decorated with the Distiller’s posters and paraphernalia. On a table at th…
Unlocking Hidden Answers in Arlington
When we’re focused on getting to our destination, we don’t always pay enough attention to the journey. Street Wisdom helped us do that.
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Creating an agile culture
After ten years of implementation of Agile by organisations around the world, I’m only seeing mitigated success. Agile takes its roots in the 2001 Agile Manifesto, when software development adopted the idea of “Agile” in an effort to …
What are the key shifts to create an agile culture?
Creating an agile culture involves fundamentally rethinking how you run your organisation and most organisations that we spoke to in our recent research felt that they had not yet fully mastered the transition to an agile culture. Many were…
DO-ing to BE-ing Agile – what does it mean to create an agile culture
For many, Agile is associated with the technology part of your business or one or two pockets in your organisation. It is often thought of as set of routines and practices – stand up meetings, retrospectives, Kanban, etc. We refer to this a…