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Prosperity Focused Agile Technology Leadership

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Agile has many faces

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- Schalk Cronjé

"Agile is the continuous delivery of prosperity to all stakeholders."

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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity

Prosperity: the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune and / or successful social status. Includes independent factors of wealth, happiness and health.

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- Johnny Clegg : In My African Dream

"The revolution has eaten its childrenI see the river of dreams run dry."

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- George Santayana 1863- 1952

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

"All this has happened before. All this will happen again"

- Pythia, Battlestar Galactica

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Biomatrix Systems Thinking (Járos, Cloete, Dostal, 1987+)

Any system (organisation) operates in three interdependent spheres

The boundary of a system is where theconnection with the stakeholders take place

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Every system has an ethos

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- http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/values.html

Values: Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable.

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Agile at the macro-level

organisational self

direct stakeholders

earth (environment)

society

democracy

politics

transnational crime

The Social Contract with Business(Jopie Coetzee 2012)

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- Amen-em-apt(Egyptian philosopher, ~700BC)

"A pilot who sees from afar will not make his boat a wreck."

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- Sun Tzu, The Art of War(~ 512 BC)

"Do the difficult whilst it is easy"

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- Eclesiastes 4:9-10; KJV Translation(Origins ~ 971-931 BC)

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."

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- KautilyanArtashastra 7.12.13

(Origins ~300BC - 150AD)

More low-value productions (at low cost), rather than few high-value productions (at high cost)

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- Proverbs 11:25; NIV Translation(Origins ~ 971-931 BC)

"A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed"

"The measure of difference between the two in terms of true pleasure is that the philosopher king lives seven hundred and twenty-nine times more pleasantly than the tyrant king"

- Plato: The Republic(~ 380 BC)

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Measurements are not a substitute for common sense

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Focus on prosperity delivered

Acknowledge globalisation(inclusive or destructive)

Higher-order decision-making capability to enable holistic

stakeholder prosperity

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