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Phil Abernathy

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In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture &amp; Methods, spoke to Phil Abernathy about his work helping organisations focus on employee happiness to drive customer happiness and shareholder return and the Bureaucracy Mass Index as a tool to identify where companies are bloated and ineffective. He also spoke about what’s needed for real transformation.Why listen to this podcast:•	Great companies are realising that in order to attract great talent you have to have a great place to work •	If you have complex systems and complex processes, the root cause will be complex structures•	The organisational BMI – the Bureaucracy Mass Index, the proportion of enablers to doers.  A healthy BMI is around 10%, whereas in many organisations it gets to be as high as 40%•	Having clear objectives that are visible to the while organisation enables good decision making; Objectives and Key Results are one tool to achieve this•	Organization transformation must include mindset and culture as well as structure and rolesMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2XhBYCOYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVqSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoqLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoqCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO

In this Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture &amp; Methods, spoke to Phil Abernathy about his work helping organisations focus on employee happiness to drive customer happiness and shareholder return and the Bureaucracy Mass Index as a tool to identify where companies are bloated and ineffective. He also spoke about what’s needed for real transformation. Why listen to this podcast: •	Great companies are realising that in order to attract great talent you have to have a great place to work •	If you have complex systems and complex processes, the root cause will be complex structures •	The organisational BMI – the Bureaucracy Mass Index, the proportion of enablers to doers. A healthy BMI is around 10%, whereas in many organisations it gets to be as high as 40% •	Having clear objectives that are visible to the while organisation enables good decision making; Objectives and Key Results are one tool to achieve this •	Organization transformation must include mindset and culture as well as structure and roles More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ <a href="https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO</a> You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. <a href="http://bit.ly/24x3IVq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/24x3IVq</a> Subscribe: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/infoq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/infoq</a> Like InfoQ on Facebook: <a href="http://bit.ly/2jmlyG8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/2jmlyG8</a> Follow on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/InfoQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">twitter.com/InfoQ</a> Follow on LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/company/infoq</a> Check the landing page on InfoQ: <a href="https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2XhBYCO</a>

Phil Abernathy on Employee Happiness and the Bureaucracy Mass Index

Phil Abernathy is an Agile Leadership Coach as well as the founder and CEO of Purple Candor. His talk at the first-ever Business Agility 2017 conference is called "Structuring Your Business for Agility". Phil walks us through the maze of systemic organizational structures and processes of today's businesses. Seeing IT's successes with Agile, business and leadership are pulling it in and layering it on existing structures without realizing that they are setting themselves up to fail. With the KPI madness that gave rise to heads of innovation and service, Phil imagines "we will have a head of Business Agility". And at the bottom of all these heads is a single person, a Bob or Mary, who is completely lost. In this maze there are maze runners: individuals who know the bureaucracy and processes so well, they "know how to chase the work through the maze to get it done". Phil commiserates that "we still stick with the manufacturing, industrial era models to run in the knowledge-based economy" - but change is happening. With Agile, leaders are finally able to see the maze for what it is and, Phil believes, we're all in a good place to do something about it.SolutionsIQ Chief Technical Officer Evan Campbell hosts at the inaugural Business Agility 2017 in New York City.About Agile AmpedThe Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe!Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www2.solutionsiq.com/subscribe...Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Phil Abernathy is an Agile Leadership Coach as well as the founder and CEO of Purple Candor. His talk at the first-ever Business Agility 2017 conference is called "Structuring Your Business for Agility". Phil walks us through the maze of systemic organizational structures and processes of today's businesses. Seeing IT's successes with Agile, business and leadership are pulling it in and layering it on existing structures without realizing that they are setting themselves up to fail. With the KPI madness that gave rise to heads of innovation and service, Phil imagines "we will have a head of Business Agility". And at the bottom of all these heads is a single person, a Bob or Mary, who is completely lost. In this maze there are maze runners: individuals who know the bureaucracy and processes so well, they "know how to chase the work through the maze to get it done". Phil commiserates that "we still stick with the manufacturing, industrial era models to run in the knowledge-based economy" - but change is happening. With Agile, leaders are finally able to see the maze for what it is and, Phil believes, we're all in a good place to do something about it.SolutionsIQ Chief Technical Officer Evan Campbell hosts at the inaugural Business Agility 2017 in New York City.About Agile AmpedThe Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe!Subscribe: <a href="http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes</a>, <a href="http://www2.solutionsiq.com/subscribe-to-agile-amped-youtube" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www2.solutionsiq.com/subscribe...</a>Follow: <a href="http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter</a> Like: <a href="http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook</a>

Phil Abernathy on KPI Madness and Maze Runners