Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Sacrifice
TL;DR Pathological organisations select executives for a willingness to sacrifice themselves and their family relationships (for large sums of money), which keeps those capable of achieving better outcomes away from the levers of power. Background I wrote yesterday about pathological culture, but this post has been brewing for a lot longer.. It’s also the answer […]
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Tags: command, culture, leadership, military, pathological, sacrifice, war
Pathological culture
I’ve been really enjoying Gene Kim’s recent interviews with Ron Westrum (Part 1 & Part 2). There were two things that really struck me in part 1: Pathological cultures make people ill – we know this from the Whitehall study; but that’s fine for the bosses, because it’s not them who are getting ill, it’s […]
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Tags: command, culture, health, leadership, pathological
Policy debt
Background When we talk about technical debt that conversation is usually about old code, or the legacy systems that run it. I’ve observed another type of debt, which comes from policies, and seems to be most harmful in the area of security policies. Firewalls or encryption? A primary purpose for this post is to put […]
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Tags: change, compliance, culture, debt, encryption, firewalls, passwords, policy
Spaghetti and meatballs
If you’re here for my experiments in culinary science move along swiftly, this post isn’t for you. This is all about enterprise architecture versus cloud native architecture. RDBMS is a meatball Enterprises use (or at least have used) Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), and such things have become deeply embedded into the organisation and culture […]
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Tags: capacity management, cloud, cloud native, culture, data, dba, enterprise, ETL, meatballs, organisation, rdbms, scale, spaghetti, sql
Wage Slaves
I recently had the good fortune of meeting Katz Kiely and learning about the Behavioural Enterprise Engagement Platform (BEEP) that she’s building. After that meeting I listened to Katz’s ‘Change for the Better‘ presentation, which provided some inspiring food for thought. Katz’s point is that so much human potential is locked away by the way […]
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Tags: culture, empowerment
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