Agile Strategy (Roger Martin in conversation with Sohrab Salimi)

On march 16th, we had Roger L. Martin as a guest. The first time he visited us, he presented his book: "When more is not better" at the agile100 in February 2021 (www.agile-academy.com/en/agil....
This time, Roger and Sohrab, host of Agile Insights and CEO of Scrum Academy GmbH (partner.agile-academy.com/en/..., talked about AGILE STRATEGY.
Roger L. Martin is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management, former Dean (1998-2013) of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto. In 2019, Roger was named the world’s #2 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers (thinkers50.com/awards/awards-....
Agile Strategy is Rogers favorite topic this year and he already published many articles about Business Strategy and how to get buy-in in your strategy ( / rogermartin ) as a leader or company executive.
If you are interested in learning more about agile strategy and leadership, take a look at the premium self-paced online classes for Agile Leaders from our host Sohrab at: lms.agile-academy.com/en/cour...
Live trainings (in german) are also available at: www.agile-academy.com/de/agil...
And you can, of course, book Roger L. Martin via: rogerlmartin.com/lets-engage
All links to articles, books and other media discussed in this conversation can be found in the transcript. You can read the whole transcript of this Agile Strategy session at: www.agile-academy.com/en/agil...

[@jasong6784]

Would be great to include Dave Snowden and Roger in the next conversation about this topic

[@ThilinaRajapakse]

Thanks. Great interview 💯🌟

[@AFewGreatconversations]

Great conversation. Led me to Grants’ books

[@scrumacademy]

That's fantastic to hear! Grant's books are indeed a treasure trove of insights. Happy reading, and may you find even more inspiration and knowledge in those pages. Enjoy the journey!

[@patrickmuri1344]

What a fantastic and insightful conversation with eye opening sayings. Thank you very much! My favourite: "It is the survival of the most adaptable". And also about "What we love to become", forces you make a deep dive in the thoughtprocess.

[@patrickmuri1344]

06:25 Stakeholder perspective rather than Shareholder perspective for a hollistic view 08:00 Strategy vs Strategic Planning, "has become bureaucratic as an exercise to define a bunch of initiatives" 09:00 Strategy is about choice... "Make a set of choices that are set integrative together to position you on the playing field of your choice" 13:45 Are we working on Strategy? What have the choices about strategy produced for you? 16:00 Invest enough time in strategy to ensure the daily actions are contributing to the strategy 17:15 No disconnect between the strategy and the daily work 19:00 What would we love to become? 20:32 The key about strategy is, it's a holistic set of choices, not a scrap plan with a list of choices. 20:45 Strategy Feedback, iterative 21:45 Can we make a long term strategy in agile? >> You can always make long term decisions and thoughts because you don't know about it 23:50 How modifiable is this strategy? Have I left myself iterate in the box I put myself in? 25:55 You will have to have a strategy that serves you long enough to the payback on the irreversable assets you put in place 30:20 Agile is to increase technocracy in software development. Agile movement is a revolt against technocracy 36:30 What you end up doing might be wrong... and then watch and adjust, and adjust, ... Just keep adjusting 38:20 "You expect the changes" in agile vs in Waterfall, because you planned it so well, you don't expect the changes 40:00 I put in the feedback loop to learn if my choice was good 41:00 See the logical structure in Data. Have logic behind your choices... vs big corporations that want deep analysis in data 45:20 If they can't explain the logic in the data, then nothing is happening 47:00 Steve Jobs about Innovation: "You have to believe to make it seeable" 50:50 If you want to innovate, the ability to see things in a different context (Apple Mac books in color rather than grey...) 53:30 Rather to look at data, look at patterns 54:30 Strategy and OKRs: Assuming it will happen, just because you set OKRs. You have to have logic why this is happening. 1:00:00 The objectives have to be connected with the big goal you want to achieve 1:01:20 The struggle of Transformation: 1) Have a clear Strategy; 2) Be patient; 3) Be resilient; 4) Have growth 1:09:00 Are we making progress? Are we ever done? We are not there yet, ... "I want to be done" BUT: What happens when you are done? things are gonna change 1:09:50 "It is the survival of the most adaptable" not the fittest!!!!

[@sohrabsalimi]

Happy you enjoyed the conversation Patrick. I enjoy talking to Roger every time I get the chance to do so. If you have questions I can take into the next conversation, let me know.

[@keimo2007]

I love your videos with RLM. Time to invite him back?

[@abdelhakyac7285]

complete shame on humanity this video has only 2k view, its mindblowing

[@sohrabsalimi]

Thank you!!! Feel free to share so that we get more views ;-)

[@markpegues757]

I appreciate this video, especially the part about the different types of analysis (logic & data).

[@sohrabsalimi]

Thanks for the kinds feedback Mark.

[@breaktherules6035]

Excellent insights! THANK YOU so much for sharing!

[@sohrabsalimi]

My pleasure.

[@andreypedro8224]

Thank you!!! I got great ideas in this video.

[@sohrabsalimi]

Happy you enjoyed the video.

[@rafeeqwarfield9690]

🔥 🔥

[@123axel123]

It is a bit slow and repetitive. Salimi repeats everything that Martin is saying. Still, always interesting to Martin Agile is a revolt against the technocracy. - good point!

[@sohrabsalimi]

Thanks for the feedback. Point taken.