Some takeaways from Dave Snowden talk at the Agile People Sweden Conference 2018.

• Agile has become the modern equivalent of religious wars
• You have to keep wild if you want agility and not Agile
• Everything that is not the law of nature is a shared belief
• We only see what we are meant to see
• Abstraction allows the brain to make novel connections
• Nurture the system instead of designing it; use scaffolding
• How people interact is more important than who they are and what they do
• There are major differences between causal and dispositional systems. Lumping them together under “Systems Thinking” creates confusion (and disasters)
• A generalist is typically a good navigator of a complex adaptive system

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