The Cost Of Fear

We need reassurance. Therefore we plan. There are situations, mainly in our personal life when we recognise that our plans are just wishful thinking. Sometimes we are so sadly skeptic about our bold plans that we cut ourselves from our dreams. Then comes the professional life. Here, on the opposite, we often push ourselves in an extreme state of denial and believe that our wishful thinking plan is the only acceptable reality. As a little inner voice tell us that the universe may care little about what our view of acceptable reality is, we seek ways to obtain some extra-reassurance via extra-plans: risk management, time to complete tasks estimations... and other complex expert analysis about everything-that-could-happen-in-the-future. Al these task the help us reassure ourselves of being right about the future have a cost. I call it the cost of fear. 

The (Agile) Change: from Intention to Action

Organisations today aim to change toward a more collaborative, customer-centric, flexible format. Leaders have a genuine intention to create an Agile organisation, where people thrive, are allowed to wrong, as long as they learn from their errors: experimentation will the new way.  More