A Spanner in the Works

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

April 25, 2022 Season 1 Episode 27
A Spanner in the Works
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
Show Notes

[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