Recommended reading (Agendashift 1st edition)

Extracted from the “behind the scenes” sections of each chapter of Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (1st edition 2018). For the 2021 2nd edition: book and recommended reading.

Chapter 1, Discovery

Recommended reading for time travel games, Clean Language, and the 1-2-4-All facilitation pattern:

• Remember the future
  Luke Hohmann
  www.innovationgames.com/remember-the-future/
• The Future, Backwards
  Dave Snowden
  cognitive-edge.com/methods/the-future-backwards/
• The Five Minute Coach: Improve Performance Rapidly
  Lynne Cooper & Mariette Castellino (2012, Crown House Publishing)
• Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds
  Wendy Sullivan & Judy Rees (2008, Crown House Publishing)
• From Contempt to Curiosity: Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate Using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling
  Caitlin Walker (2014, Clean Publishing)
• 1-2-4-All: Engage Everyone Simultaneously in Generating Questions, Ideas, and Suggestions
  Keith McCandless & Henri Lipmanowicz
  www.liberatingstructures.com/1-1-2-4-all/
• The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation
  Keith McCandless & Henri Lipmanowicz
  (2014, Liberating Structures Press)

Chapter 2, Exploration

Recommended reading for Cynefin and “plan on a page”:

• The Cynefin Mini-Book
  Greg Brougham (2015, InfoQ)
  www.infoq.com/minibooks/cynefin-mini-book
• A leader’s framework for decision making
  David J. Snowdon & Mary E. Boone
  (2007, Harvard Business Review)
  hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making
• Cynefin Review Part 7 – Finding Your Place on the Framework
  Simon Powers (2016, Adventures with Agile blog)
  www.adventureswithagile.com/2016/04/11/cynefin-review-part-7-finding-your-place-on-the-framework/
• Lean Change Management: Innovative Practices For Managing Organizational Change
  Jason Little (2014, Happy Melly Express)
• Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
  Verne Harnish (2002, Gazelles, Inc)

Chapter 3, Mapping

Recommended reading for User Story Mapping, Impact Mapping, and Strategy:

• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
  Jeff Patton and Peter Economy (2014, O’Reilly Media)
• Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
  Gojko Adzic (2012, Provoking Thoughts)
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy:
  The difference and why it matters
  Richard Rumelt (2011, Profile Books)

Chapter 4, Elaboration

Recommended reading for Lean Startup, A3, Solutions Focus, and Toyota Kata:

• Running Lean: Iterate from plan A to a plan that works
  Ash Maurya (2012, O’Reilly Media)
• The Lean Startup: How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses
  Eric Ries (2011, Portfolio Penguin)
• Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process to solve problems, gain agreement, mentor, and lead
  John Shook (2010, Lean Enterprise Institute)
• Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota’s PDCA Management System
  Durward K. Surbek II & Art Smalley
  (2008, Productivity Press)
• The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE
  Mark McKergow and Paul Z. Jackson (2nd edition 2011, Nicholas Brealey International)
• Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
  Mike Rother (2009, McGraw-Hill)

Chapter 5, Operation

Recommended reading for organisation, culture, Systems Thinking, and Kanban:

• Organizational Culture and Leadership
  Edgar H. Schein (4th edition, 2010, Jossey-Bass)
• Flawless Consulting
  Peter Block (3rd edition, 2011, John Wiley & Sons)
• Design Principles
  [UK] Government Digital Service
  www.gov.uk/design-principles
• Building Successful Communities of Practice: Discover How Connecting People Makes Better Organisations
  Emily Webber (2016, Tacit)
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
  L. David Marquet (2013, Portfolio)
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  Donnella Meadows (2008, White River Junction)
• Systemantics: How Systems Work & Especially How They Fail
  John Gall (1977, Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co)
• Kanban from the Inside: Understand the Kanban Method, connect it to what you already know, introduce it with impact
  Mike Burrows (2014, Blue Hole Press)

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