{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6aa186e18ff451bb2211541a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"153: Tom's worst ever DJ set","description":"<p>Tom's worst ever DJ set was one where he followed the \"rules\" most carefully. </p><p><br></p><p>His best was the one where he stopped trying. </p><p><br></p><p>And the difference relates to why many teams can do all the right exploratory work and still discover nothing useful.</p><p><br></p><p>In this one we wander through DJing for swing dancers as a sort of live complexity practice, and then we crowbar lessons from rooms full of dancers into the world of work, where people dance around strategic bets.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The high profile gig that went so wrong because Tom was trying so hard to get it right</li><li>\"Find the pocket\": how to tune into a room's tempo, and why Herräng's pocket ran twenty BPM faster than Bournemouth's</li><li>What changes when you stop treating your heuristics as a through line and start treating them as a fence</li><li>Exploration that isn't exploratory: doing all the \"correct\" discovery work but playing it way too safe</li><li>Why you can't rationalise your way into anything interesting, and why so much of business is pretending that's what you did</li><li>Whether a team can have a collective gut, or whether it needs something external to hand it weird options</li><li>Plus: the MAYA principle, survivorship bias, Alfred Nobel, and Britney</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Please share your stories of rules well broken: tentacles@crownandreach.com</p><p><br></p><p>Find out more about us and our work at crownandreach.com</p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Herräng Dance Camp, Sweden <a href=\"https://www.herrang.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.herrang.com</a></li><li>Angela Andrew — Tom's teacher and mentor, legendary dancer and artist</li><li>Alfred Nobel's Vinterviken dynamite works outside Stockholm, venue for The Snowball event mentioned</li><li>The MAYA principle (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable) by Raymond Loewy</li><li>The waggle dance and the ~20% of bees that ignore it, see Episode 044: The one with the bees <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy/episodes/044-the-one-with-the-bees\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy/episodes/044-the-one-with-the-bees</a></li><li>Previous episode on protocols was 134: The Protocol Problem part 1 – Geoff's shadow spreadsheet sprawl  <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/696fea603738e9e7d196e2f5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/696fea603738e9e7d196e2f5</a></li><li>Multiverse Mapping — https://multiversemapping.com</li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}