Insights vs MBTI: Am I an Extrovert?
Last week I went through our corporate Discovery Insights training. My MBTI preference is ISTP so I was curious what the difference would be after my Insights assessment given both instruments are based on Jungian Theory. MBTI My type is ISTP = Introvert, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving. In a nutshell, my preference is introverted thinking which means I take data in though my senses and internalize before responding. I’m open to change and have little need for details and closed-ended...
Read MoreComplexities of Culture
There were a few great discussions about culture and the impact organizational culture has on how you can approach Agile transformation or adoption at this weekend’s Toronto Agile Open Space. During one session we dove deeper into the people behind the culture and talked about why labelling an organization with a certain culture and thereby aligning practices to that culture isn’t as simple as it appears to be. Take the example we used of a control culture. Control cultures, as...
Read MorePeople Create Your Culture
Last week I ran a trial run of a session Don Gray and I are working on at XP Toronto. This session was a result of a session we did at AYE this year about MBTI and corporate culture. Hypothesis: Is there a way to increase the odds of a successful change by understanding your organization culture from Schneider’s culture model and how the MBTI (temperament and function pairs) of the people involved in the change fit into each of the four culture types. Here’s how I ran the session:...
Read MoreCulture and People and Systems…Oh My!
I received my copy of The Re-Engineering Alternative by William Schneider a couple days ago. I’ve always been fascinated with culture and people (particularly MBTI) and how, IMO, they impact how effective you can be with Agile. Michael Sahota has written some fantastic posts about organization culture and I’m excited to read this book to expand my knowledge about culture. What I’m more interested is how those cultures develop, after all, it’s the people in your...
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