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Sooner Safer Happier

Written by: Jonathan Smart
  • Summary

  • It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchastrated to help you on your unique journey to improving ways of working.

    Hosted by Jon Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and author of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network. Follow the podcast as Smart delves into conversation with business professionals and provides advice for a Ways of Working transformational journey.

    Listen now to be at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

    Follow us on Social Media:


    Jon Smart:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansmart/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonsmart


    Sooner Safer Happier:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sooner-safer-happier/


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Episodes
  • Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén
    Mar 26 2024

    Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds at Spotify. The origin story with Joakim Sundén, someone who was in the room when deciding the language.


    It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchestrated to help you on your unique journey to improving ways of working.


    Hosted by Jon Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and author of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network. Follow the podcast as Smart delves into conversation with business professionals and provides advice for a Ways of Working transformational journey.


    Listen now to be at the front of change and ahead of the competition.



    Follow us on Social Media:


    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sooner-safer-happier/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true


    Follow Jon Smart on Social Media:


    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansmart/


    Timestamps:


    (00:01) - Intro

    (3:15) - Empowered Teams (Spotify Model). Squads, Tribes, Chapters, and Guilds

    (17:35) - Flexibility of Teams (Spotify Model). Autonomy and Alignment of Evolution

    (28:30) - Leadership and Central PMOs. A change of conventional leadership

    (33:20) - Top 10 Priorities/Strategies. Figuring out what needs to get done with company bets

    (35:00) - Background to Guilds/Chapters. Understanding the terminology

    (41:48) - Reporting Lines & Leadership Structure. Leadership within the Chapters

    (53:58) - Cultures and Values . Incentivised Behavior to Empower

    (1:01:50) - Lessons to Conclude. Applying the Model to Change



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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ways of Working at UBS with Rob Berini
    Mar 5 2024

    Listen to the ways of working changes that UBS has gone through as told by Rob Berini, MD and Head of Digital Enablement.


    It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchestrated to help you on your unique journey to improving ways of working.


    Hosted by Jon Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and author of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network. Follow the podcast as Smart delves into conversation with business professionals and provides advice for a Ways of Working transformational journey.


    Listen now to be at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

    Follow us on Social Media:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sooner-safer-happier/


    Follow Jon Smart on Social Media:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansmart/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonsmart


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    50 mins
  • Ways of Working at ABSA with Nick Manterfield
    Oct 31 2023

    Listen to the ways of working changes that ABSA has gone through as told by Nick Manterfield, CIO of Corporate Bank and Group Payments.


    It’s the Age of Digital and we’re all living in it. Sooner Safer Happier is a podcast orchastrated to help you on your unique journey to improving ways of working.


    Hosted by Jon Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, coach, and author of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is also the founder of the Enterprise Agility Leaders Network. Follow the podcast as Smart delves into conversation with business professionals and provides advice for a Ways of Working transformational journey.


    Listen now to be at the front of change and ahead of the competition.

     

    Follow us on Social Media:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sooner-safer-happier/


    Follow Jon Smart on Social Media:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansmart/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonsmart


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    52 mins

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