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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you’re changing the org chart, don’t design it behind closed doors and introduce it in a top-down manner—that’s a terrible way to foster aligned autonomy as it robs people of their sense of autonomy. Instead, the people affected by the redesign exercise should be involved as much as possible.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It is tempting to do research and management where there are data. It gives the manager a feeling of doing something useful. However, managers need to be careful of falling into a trap of managing the measurable rather than managing the important.

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Compassion isn’t just good, it’s good for business, and a 2004 paper argues that compassion at an individual level... can turn into “organisational compassion” when team members collectively notice, feel, and respond to pain experienced by team members.

Compassion isn’t just good, it’s good for business, and a 2004 paper argues that compassion at an individual level... can turn into “organizational compassion” when team members collectively notice, feel, and respond to pain experienced by team members.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear. ~ Ed Catmul

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Dictators come and go, and when they go the dictatorship goes with them. When a true leader departs, the company he leaves behind is healthy, self-governing, vibrant, and intact. ~ Ricardo Semler

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Create a culture of hospitality. Which means addressing questions I’ve spent my career asking: How do you make the people who work for you and the people you serve feel seen and valued? How do you give them a sense of belonging? How do you make them feel part of something bigger than themselves?

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

A fun workplace trumps careful hiring when it comes to performance and personal satisfaction.

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"In nonviolent action, you’re trying to win by converting people to your cause" (Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller, Blueprint for Revolution)

Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) @cdeliveryfdn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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The 4 key metrics you've been measuring? They are now 5 📊🗝️ Here's what #DORA changed and what it means for your continuous improvement efforts. cd.foundation/blog/2025/10...

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The DORA 4 key metrics become 5 - CD Foundation

In the 2025 DORA Report, there are now 5 key metrics. This post explores this recent changes.

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity. Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy. A little profanity can show that you're being real and you do give a damn.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

As customers, we can learn how employees are treated by their bosses by noticing how the employees treat us.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2025

Who Visited Epstein Island? Find out by watching 'The Onion Investigates: Jeffery Epstein' on The Onion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Compassion is the self-discipline to imagine and remember that everyone faces hurdles. Edmondson, Amy C.. The Fearless Organization (p. 206)

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

People are not resources. Language matters. Resources, generally speaking, are fungible. They can be bought and sold.

"Resources, generally speaking, are fungible. They can be bought and sold." (Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan, Competing Against Luck)

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Why does Open Space work anyhow? How could something so simple do so much? The short answer is that Open Space works because self-organization works. At least that is the conclusion I have reached after some fifteen years’ wondering how this little marvel manages to do what it does. #FASTAgile

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you hold the expectation that your hard work and good efforts are invariably going to be appreciated, acknowledged, and rewarded by your employer in perpetuity, it’s time to get over yourself.

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Want to crank up your adaptive / #agile capability? My advice is to ditch #scrum for something else flow-based like kanban or #FASTAgile.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I really dislike being asked "tell me about a time when..." questions in interviews. I think Will Guidara's approach is much more sensible.

"When I was younger, I took a lot of pride in coming up with interview questions. I now believe the best interview technique is no technique at all: you simply have enough of a conversation that you can get to know the person a little bit. Do they seem curious and passionate about what we’re trying to build? Do they have integrity; are they someone I can respect? Is this someone I can imagine myself—and my team—happily spending a lot of time with?" (Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality)

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We will attempt to undo the damage of the manager-as-strategist view, and replace it with an approach that encourages you to court success with this formula: • Get the right people. • Make them happy so they don’t want to leave. • Turn them loose. #BetterWaysOfWorking

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

History repeats and the same happens again with OKRs (a very similar concept to management by objectives) being done in a way so poorly it defeats its original purpose.

"The concept of “management by objectives” has received considerable attention in recent years, in part due to the writings of Peter Drucker. However, management by objectives has often been interpreted in a way which leads to no more than a new set of tactics within a strategy of management by direction and control." (Douglas McGregor, The Human Side of Enterprise)

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Healthy organizations are a mental concept of relationship to which people are drawn by hope, vision, values, and meaning, along with liberty to cooperatively pursue them. Healthy organizations educe behavior. Educed behavior is inherently constructive. #BetterWaysOfWorking

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Many firms try to use OKRs as a form of top-down control, ensuring that each subordinate’s OKRs fit with the OKRs of their superior. While this feels like alignment, it all but eliminates any chance of divergence or serendipity.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Even in early #Scrum, the founders are recommending one of the same practices #FASTAgile does - team members should be T-shaped i.e. multi skilled. #Agile #BetterWaysOfWorking

Cross-fertilization: Team members work collaboratively, and the lines between specialties start to blur. In fact, some companies mandate that every team member have two specialties (for example, coding in more than one language and testing) and two domains (for example, design and marketing).

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Most new ideas will never pan out. That’s why failure is a fact of life. But it’s a law of #innovation that successes can’t go up unless failures go up, too. And because we can’t have successes without the failures, we need to create organizational cultures that cherish failure.

Most new ideas will never pan out. That’s why failure is a fact of life in the collaborative organization. But it’s a law of innovation that successes can’t go up unless failures go up, too. And because we can’t have the successes without the failures, we need to create organizational cultures that cherish failure

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Can We FIX Agile for Software Engineers? | One Big Question w/ @kevlin.bsky.social & @davefarley77.bsky.social AVAILABLE NOW 📽️ WATCH: youtu.be/5KECB9YJZ0U

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

You may remember when the Scientific Method was trusted to provide information that helped us. You may remember when there were facts. And how factual evidence was used to make decisions. That way of life vanished with high-speed delivery, universal access, social media, Googling, and algorithms.

If you’re old enough, you may remember life before the internet. If you’re very old, never mind. You may remember reading newspapers, articles, and books to get your information. You may remember being able to read for more than a few minutes and to remember what you read. You may remember when you read rather than listening to an audio book or podcast. You may remember leisurely conversations where you discussed ideas with friends and family over a meal. You may remember gathering with work colleagues for hours or even days to think about plans and strategies. You may remember when the Scientific Method was trusted to provide information that helped us. You may remember when there were facts. And how factual evidence was used to make decisions. That way of life vanished with high-speed delivery, universal access, social media, Googling, and algorithms.

Dustin Thostenson @dustinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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Serious truth here (Johnathan Smart)

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

“It Might Not Work” Is a Terrible Reason Not to Try...

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Carter trying to deal with illegal immigrants suggested nothing could be done as long as there was a gap in opportunity & living standards between the USA and Mexico. Rather than spending on barriers, he said, we should spend money helping to build the Mexican economy until the immigration stopped.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Don't think of it as hiring junior developers. Think of it as planting senior developers.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

In Donald Trump, we have a frightening Venn diagram consisting of three circles: hedonism; narcissism; and bullying. These overlap to create an impulsive, immature, incompetent person who, when in the position of ultimate power, easily slides into the role of tyrant.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

For the most part, leaders just take care of themselves, regardless of what they should do either to adhere to moral strictures or to make their organizations perform better. (Jeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS)

"The various examples of taking bonuses and other large payments while asking for wage and job cuts from the rank and file, the growing disparity between CEO and average employee pay, and CEO and senior leader economic security often obtained at the expense of the workforce—all these factors belie any widespread empirical evidence that senior leaders are taking care of others first. For the most part, leaders just take care of themselves, regardless of what they should do either to adhere to moral strictures or to make their organizations perform better." (Jeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS)

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea.

"There is an important principle here that may seem obvious, yet—in my experience—is not obvious at all. Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than getting the right idea." (Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.)

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Interesting that the #Scrum guide authors suggest fluid teams! An idea core to #FASTAgile. Also interesting is the "set of shared values" across teams (FAST Collective), to support fluid teaming. Where did the obsession with static teams come from? The Scrum authors suggested fluid in this book.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I had fun writing a blog about the parallels between Fluid Adaptive Scaling Technology (FAST, or #FASTAgile), and Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World (the book by General Stanley McChrystal). medium.com/fluid-scalin...

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From War Zones to Workplaces: How FAST Agile and Team of Teams Build Adaptive Power

Dynamic Network Structure, Fluid Teams, Common Purpose, Empowered Execution, Breaking Down Silos

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

FAST in-person live class in Paris with trainers Quinton Quartel and Haifa Bacha June 26-27. Paris in Spring!!! The class will be in English and French. www.morisseauconsulting.com/formation-fa...

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Formation FaST Agile

Participez à une expérience unique de deux jours en présentiel, animée par deux experts : le créateur même de la méthode FAST Agile

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

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Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This is one of the problems that #FASTAgile is able to solve through fluid teaming. Although a single team can schedule tasks together and optimize its flow internally, it becomes much harder for two teams to schedule tasks together. ~ @jeffgothelf.bsky.social

Although a single team can schedule tasks together and optimize its flow internally, it becomes much harder for two teams to schedule tasks together. If a designer has to produce a drawing for team A, then her work for team B is idled until that drawing is complete. And if two people on team A have responsibilities to other teams—for example, the designer owes work to team A and the developer owes work to team C—then the scheduling problem suddenly multiplies in complexity and rapidly becomes unmanageable.

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A European tyrant starts trouble in Europe - invading a neighbour. What to do? In an act of concession/appeasement a decision is made to hand over territory. This agreement is made at a negotiating table without the country whose territory is being handed over... www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-...

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How Britain Hoped To Avoid War With Germany In The 1930s

Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Pr...

Quinton Quartel @qrq.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. ― Russell L. Ackoff