Meet Kevin Behr - Author of The Phoenix Project talking about his personal life, why innovation in process oriented environments is dumb, cloud strategies, and why there is no skills shortage
Description
[00:00 ] Kevin, Gene Kim & the making of The Phoenix Project
[05:00 ] Tampa General Hospital, Obama Care, Losing his mind & getting arrested
[06:00 ] True innovation is rare & rarely needed
[07:00 ] Innovation in process-oriented environments is dumb
[09:00 ] Why behavior change is key and tribes are counter to innovation
[10:00 ] Cloud First strategies and other wishy-washy word salads
[11:00 ] There is no talent shortage
[12:30 ] Analogies are low-fi, that's what we DON'T need when we communicate strategies
[14:30 ] The fear of failure and why strategy needs humility
[15:00 ] How systems kill talent
[16:00 ] People think they are valuable for what they know, but the real value is fast they can learn things
[17:00 ] Talent shortage - a sign that organisations are slow in recognizing whats needed and slow to develop skills
[18:00 ] Is the need for transformation a sign that we have a skills gap in our corner offices?
[19:00 ] Is Chicken Sandwich your constraint?
[21:00 ] The Sheep syndrome
[22:00 ] Transformation funding
[23:40 ] The follower paradigm
[28:30 ] Cloud redo, Cloud redo, Cloud redo - 100% false positives, fatigue and Why are we doing this?
[30:30 ] The real Kung-Fu is building world-class operations











