The Antimatter Principle In The Real World – Rendanheyi Haier Group Corporation is a multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company based in Qingdao, China. It was founded in 1984 and has since grown into one of the world’s largest appliance manufacturers, with operations in more than 100 countries. Haier’s unique management philosophy is called …
In case you missed it (way back in 2014): Q&A with Bob Marshall about the Antimatter Principle
How much attending to folks’ needs have you been doing of late?
In case you missed it: The Antimatter Principle
Reverse Antimatter Principle As you probably know by now, the Antimatter Principle states: “Attend to Folks’ Needs” – as a means to nurture the social dynamic of an organisation, and thus encourage desirable things like employee engagement, improved morale, increased discretionary effort, improved interpersonal relationships, and joy. (There are many posts here on this blog …
“Whoever tries to serve his private ends without serving others harms himself as well as the world at large. The reason is obvious.” ~ Gandhi, Ashram Observances in Action
The Antimatter Principle invites us to: “Attend to the needs of the Folks That Matter™“ We might choose to amend this to read: “Attend to the needs of the Holons That Matter™” This modification is brought to you courtesy of Adam Kahane and his book “Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t …
Antimatter Principle Elaborated Around a year ago I wrote a post with the title “Antimatter Evo“. For those who may have found it a little over-long, and for those who prefer lists, I’ve extracted the core Antimatter Principle elements into this briefer post ( corresponding, BTW, to the twelve principles of the Agile Manifesto). And …
The Antimatter Principle – The Anti-Kanban For Almost Two Decades Already Increasingly this year I’m being asked to comment about Kanban – and its offshoot, the Kanban Method, being offered in the market by David Anderson (and others). Some are pushing the Kanban Method very heavily with their clients as a solution to the increasingly …
Framing the Antimatter Principle How we choose to frame things makes our communications more or less easy for our listeners to understand. A recently published study suggests that, for most in the workplace, framing an issue in terms of its moral dimension elicits a more positive response that framing that same issue in terms of simple …
Core Practices for the Antimatter Principle When presenting the Antimatter Principle, some folks have suggested that it might help meet their needs for me to also present some ideas on how to go about applying it. In other words, some core practices. I guess it’s the curse of the expert that makes me wonder how this …
A Vocabulary for the Antimatter Principle For me, one key aspect of the Antimatter Principle is the different – and, to my mind much simpler – frame it provides for looking at work, and the perennial challenges of coordination, prioritisation, allocation, communication, motivation, and so on. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used …
The Antimatter Principle – the Metaphor I call it the Antimatter Principle because, to me, it’s the most valuable insight by far I’ve ever had in my whole career. Why “Antimatter”? It’s a strange name to choose, and so may spur curiosity in the folks who hear it. And may more easily lodge itself in …
The Antimatter Principle Antimatter is by far the most valuable substance, by weight, known to Man (around $25 billion per gram). It’s incredibly rare, amazingly expensive and difficult to produce, and yet is by far the most powerful energy source we presently know of. It’s also the very epitome of alienness. Seems like a good …
First Principles I was reading the other day about how Elon Musk “reasons from first principles“. And I was thinking, “Well, d’oh! Doesn’t everyone do that? I know I do.” And then, upon reflection, I thought, “Hmm, maybe most folks don’t do that.” I certainly have seen little evidence of it, compare to the evidence …
Better Antimatter Customers [Some years ago I wrote a post entitled “Better Customers“. This is an update of that post, reframed using the AntimatterPrinciple] More effective organisations need better Folks That Matter™. Where “better” means more demanding discerning. Less gullible. Folks that demand their needs are met, or as a minimum, attended-to, not tech, nor features, …
The Antimatter Opening Question In Clean Language, a conversation with a client often opens with the question “What would you like to have happen…?” This has bugged me for a long time, for two reasons: Maybe the client doesn’t like for anything to happen (therefore it’s not truly a Clean question). In the Antimatter frame, …
Antimatter Evo Tom Gilb has long been known for his “Evo”(evolutionary) approach to software engineering, and more recently for his sharp criticisms of the Agile Manifesto (99% of which I agree with). In a recent (February 2018) PPI Systems Engineering Newsletter, he authors the feature article “How Well Does the Agile Manifesto Align with Principles …
Antimatter Hiring When we’re hiring, why not invite candidates to actively demonstrate the core capabilities that our organisation, group, or team, needs? Asides: How often do hiring managers know what core capabilities the organisation, group or team needs? How often are they capable of recognising and assessing candidates on those capabilities? And how aware are …
The Twelfth Principle There are four values and twelve principles connected with the Agile Manifesto. As the folks at 12thPrinciple say, “the four values and eleven of the twelve Agile principles do not address the wider organization at all.” This is one of the key reasons why so many Agile adoptions (circa 80%) fail to deliver …
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