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mlevison

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Certified Scrum Trainer | I help organizations and teams become more effective. I use #Scrum, #Kanban #Agile #BehaviouralPsychology. | I’ve helped over 8000 people build better teams

I dabble with #PKM aka Personal Knowledgement Management so the ideas that fall out of my head get written down somewhere #Obsidian. #fedi22

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mlevison, to random
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Everett Rogers - Diffusions of Innovation - one of the most cited science books ever. It's the source of Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, ...

In this book Everett, that up to 87% of the variance in adoption of an innovation (idea or product) comes from the trialability. Trialability is an odd, word. It just means if our ideas can't be easily tried. They will be ignored.

Next time you want an improvement at work make it sure it can be tried easily.

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"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."

mlevison,
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@grimalkina sounds interesting. Is there a way to access without the paywall?

mlevison,
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@grimalkina Thanks.

That's strange. I would always be happier to see a link to something that isn't paywalled.

I see the value of Doi link.

Heck occasionally, failing all other options I fallback to sci.hub.

The quotes strike as very interesting since they also tie in very well the SCARF Motivational model: https://agilepainrelief.com/glossary/scarf-model (Not a DOI link).

People pushback when treated unfairly.

mlevison, to random
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- How much would you pay for $50 gift card at a local retailer that must used in two weeks. On average people were willing to pay $45. Now offer a lottery ticket with 50% chance of winning a $50 and 50% chance of winning $100 Gift card. We would expect the perceived value to go up or stay the same. In fact it dropped to $16.

To reduce the at work, offer experiments and make bigger decisions reversible.

The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

mlevison, to random
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Bell Canada, how low can you go? Hours ago, I signed up to switch my Fibre internet service to TekSavvy. A few minutes go I got a call from Bell, offering to lower my rate. So apparently lower rates are only a good business practice when it hurts smaller players.

Gross.

cc: @andykm -- I'm assuming this doesn't rise to the level of a CRTC complaint.

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It's not a top ten list and as you will see, I'm not yet David Letterman. I thought it would be fun to cover some of the many many reasons we fail to get what we want. (Cue the Stones?)

As you will see, smiling on camera is still a skill I'm learning.

https://buff.ly/4dDrQfJ

mlevison, to random
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  • Equal Weighting for answers - as above some things may matter very little to you as an individual, yet the answer will be used to place you in a category
  • Scales can't be used to compare with other people - two people might both score as 'D' Dominant, that doesn't mean they would have the same level of dominance.
  • There isn't a standard test
  • Originally designed in the early 1900's to assess the "Mental Energy" of army recruits

2/3

mlevison,
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  • Self-descriptive test scores represent how the applicant wants to present themselves -- it may not be reality
  • DISC wasn't designed to measure job performance and there is no evidence that it correlates with success at work
  • Easy to cheat - want sound dominant, select the adjectives that sound like who want to project
    ….

Strengths

  • Can get people to talk to one and other

We could find more weaknesses, however at a certain point, we're shooting fish in a barrel.

3/3

mlevison, to random
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I'm not a psychologist. I don't have a PhD. I do explode the balloons I call . DISC (and its friend Myers-Briggs) are among the ones I have the most fun with.

My notes are a summary of: https://thepracticalpsych.com/blog/disc-personality-types and a few others that have since fallen off the web. (If you need I have PDF archived copies - DEVONThink :-)

Weaknesses

  • Forced Choice Questioning - must choose a position on a line for things that might not matter for that person

1/3

mlevison, to random
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at Work - Asking someone in leadership to take the perspective of the development team will be a challenge if that leader doesn't have prior development experience. We need to establish common ground on a relevant subject. We need to find a shared experience that that is relevant to our work. Example if the problem is frequent interruptions to our dev team, then find ask them about the effect of interruptions on their own focus work. Ask open ended questions and truly listen.

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A post in which the cohost of NYT's flagship tech podcast describes "simulating people" via "digital twins" as a "credible" and "solid" use of chatbots, a "good answer to the question of what generative AI is for":

https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/112396896352462291

I don't have access to the paywalled longer article, if anyone does, I'd be interested if his claims are any less hype-y in context.

mlevison,
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@davidthewid I listened to the podcast. It was a sensible use in a narrow context. Rough summary: feed all writing from a CEO with limited time to an LLM. Invite the LLM to critique work you’re preparing for the CEO.

Effectively, it’s acting as a mirror.

I highly recommend Hardfork as good, funny way to pay attention to tech news

mlevison,
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@davidthewid same podcast

I use them for a sense of what’s going on. I don’t need to agree with them.

The humour helps

mlevison, to random
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At Work - asking for something too far away from what someone already agrees with will harden their current position and not move them. Distance.

Berger uses a football field to describe opinions, with extreme views in the end zones + moderate in the center. Each person has a 'Zone of Acceptance' around their opinion; opinions beyond this enter the 'Region of Rejection.' Presenting an idea far from someone's current stance reinforces their existing view.

The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

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Well, this seems very bad.

https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

mlevison,
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@mhoye wow

mlevison, to random
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Solid paper - key comment: "We strongly encourage anyone looking for work in this market, especially if you come from a non-traditional background, to stop spending energy on applying online, full stop. Instead, reach out to hiring managers. The numbers will be on your side there, as relatively few candidates are targeting hiring managers directly." https://interviewing.io/blog/are-recruiters-better-than-a-coin-flip-at-judging-resumes

mlevison, to random
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Hint understanding relationships is an important part of -“Everyone is right, only partially” – Exploring Perspectives, Improving Relationships - TastyCupcakes.org https://tastycupcakes.org/2023/04/everyone-is-right-only-partially-exploring-perspectives-improving-relationships/

mlevison, to random
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Need more Influence at work? (We all do, even the self employed)

  • Develop Empathy
  • Listen with the Intent to Understand
  • Shoe Benefit of the change is better than the Status Quo ++++++++
  • Ask for Help, Don't Tell
  • Find people who don't already agree with you, but aren't too far away.
  • Make smaller requests first -> Larger requests later
  • Reduce risk -> make decisions reversible

mlevison,
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@RommelRico Shoe == Show.

Spell check isn't enough when you have low typing skills.😂

grimalkina, to random
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I've spent the week reading like 50+ papers on learning to remember what I know about how people learn and this is what I know:

-people are bad at deciding what to learn
-people are bad at studying. We choose the worst ways to study and we hate the most efficient ways
-people give up on learning so much. Like more than anyone believes
-people aren't clear about what their goals really are for learning and if you try to get people to set goals they don't want to
-teachers truly work miracles

mlevison,
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@grimalkina

As an educator, I’m not surprised

As a self driven learner how can I avoid many of these mistakes?

mlevison,
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@grimalkina

I've taught all of these to my kids.

I occupy a slight funny space. I have no need/interest to memorize anything. I learn to find interesting new ideas and bring them back to my clients. I don't need to quiz myself, since memorization doesn't matter in my case.

If something is interesting ex. The Catalyst - Jonah Berger, I take extensive notes.

I was curious to see what I was missing.

cc: @bamfic

Course looks cool - I don't think it's aimed at me.

mlevison,
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@grimalkina
@bamfic

Have you see: https://www.amazon.ca/Learners-First-Agile-Approach-Learning/dp/3755731525/ref=sr_1_1

Seriously impressed by the approach. I'm trying to find a way of getting some students to work through this approach and see what we learn.

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“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify why python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

mlevison,
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@futurebird interesting.

Do you have a fluent swift book?

mlevison, to random
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Top things that kill your Influence at work

  • Force people into a decision
  • Failure to overcome the Status Quo
  • Change is too far outside of my "zone of acceptance"
  • Risk of change
  • Not Listening to Others
  • Lack of Empathy
  • Failure to build rapport
  • Not supporting others when they need your help

When you fail to -- look to your own actions before grumbling about others

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Anyone in have 10 ping pong (sorry, ahem, table tennis) balls they could lend me for a few days?
I promise I won't get beer on them, trying out an idea for an educational video.

mlevison,
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@MichaelPorter I mentioned the Ball Point Game: https://www.plays-in-business.com/ball-point-game-introducing-agile-by-the-fun-way/

(original source is offline)

The key is of course in the debrief. Ex:

  • What effect did my demands to go faster in the last round have?
  • What about your rate of defects (dropped balls)

Another fun site: https://tastycupcakes.org -- the #Agile Community loves game play to explore collaboration and flow.

.....

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@daverooneyca and I are doing a public AMA (ask-me-anything) on all things Agile on May 1 (next week). Bring your questions and get the perspective of two coaches who each have 25+ years of experience.

More details at: https://gargoylesoftware.com/coaching-ama/

mlevison,
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@mkilby @mike_bowler @daverooneyca

Heathens they're using Miro not Mural. This is as bad as Scrum vs XP 20 yrs ago.😂

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