{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6ac386025558f9dbe262d622?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"154: Success in Circuit lies","description":"<p>Someone in Coffee &amp; Complexity Club asked: isn&#39;t this Uncertainty Bubbles &quot;double game&quot; thing basically just lying? You tell the organisation one story about your project and run a completely different one inside it. Where exactly is the ethical line? Shouldn&#39;t you be honest about the work and let the chips fall where they may?</p><p><br></p><p>It&#39;s a fair question, we&#39;re no fans of dishonesty here. So we wandered up a hill with a sleeping baby to figure out what we actually meant. We started with a bit of Emily Dickinson and ended up somewhere we didn&#39;t expect. The storytelling turns out to be necessary, and exactly as honest as any project update you&#39;ve ever written. It just isn&#39;t the point.</p><p><br></p><p>Including:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why you can&#39;t logic anyone into anything, and what to do instead of trying harder</li><li>The moment Corissa realised there is no unbiased version of any story, ever, and why that just kinda dissolved the ethical problem, rather than excusing it</li><li>Radical honesty with a three-year-old around Santa Claus ... and the risk of being chased out of Bournemouth with pointed sticks</li><li>The two-prong barbell: how to report on your most certain work and your most uncertain work at the same time, and why the mushy middle in between is where projects go to fester</li><li>Why the point of a bubble isn&#39;t what you&#39;re allowed to get away with inside it, but is to do with <em>the tempo you get to run at</em> inside it</li><li>&quot;If you think it&#39;ll take two weeks, give the team two days&quot; ... plus the very important caveat that stops this being the cruel fake deadline</li><li>Two days, zero budget, and no app: how a Google Form, a WhatsApp group and no code at all were the forcing function we needed and enabled way more learning than more sprints of building a &quot;better&quot; app</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Mild spoiler warning for anyone listening with small people: we are <em>frank</em> about Santa.</p><p><br></p><p>This one&#39;s for anyone who&#39;s been told to just stick to the plan, but has a sneaking suspicion that the plan is part of the problem.</p><p><br></p><p>Send us your uncertainty bubbles, your radical repurposing stories, and your corrections about the Soviet lunar programme: 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>Emily Dickinson, &quot;Tell all the truth but tell it slant&quot; (c. 1868)</li><li>Corissa&#39;s poetry — Old Lollipops: micropoems in 140 characters or less <a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077JJWJDR\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077JJWJDR</a></li><li>4U + CPT Cheat Sheet — how to communicate progress from inside an uncertainty bubble <a href=\"https://crownandreach.com/#resources\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://crownandreach.com/#resources</a></li><li>Uncertainty bubbles and the double game — Ep 145: What Xerox PARC actually got wrong <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/6a158e1e6ee822cbfbf36be0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/6a158e1e6ee822cbfbf36be0</a></li><li>Coffee &amp; Complexity Club — our Friday morning sessions, where this question came from <a href=\"https://luma.com/stepscollective\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://luma.com/stepscollective</a></li><li>Unpack, undergo, unfold — Ep 112: Unpacking, unleashing, and unfolding and Ep 113: Unpack unleash unfold part 2 — the unfoldening <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/685ffe34081ac1df5d8cb371\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/685ffe34081ac1df5d8cb371</a> | <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/686d37638d3d6839f4949285\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/tentacles/episodes/686d37638d3d6839f4949285</a></li><li>Cynefin <a href=\"https://cynefin.io/wiki/Cynefin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://cynefin.io/wiki/Cynefin</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}