Is coercion a VIRTUE?
Someone has proposed a session for the Agile2015 conference entitled:
“The Virtue of Coercion” …it goes like this….quoting:
“…There almost no chance of Agile transformation without the imposition of Agile practices on teams. Pushing Agile practices on teams is the primary way to obtain lasting enterprise-wide Agile adoptions.
“…in this session we present 4 years of data proving that employee engagement actually has nothing whatsoever to do with successfully scaling Agile. Rather, the right underlying conditions for agility have more to do with buy-in (and appropriate funding) at the C-level.”
Is this blasphemy….or just good business?
…if you elect to add a comment this session, you may be in good company!
Others (besides myself) who have commented include:
- Tobias Meyer, author of THE PEOPLE’s SCRUM
- Harrison Owen, formulator of Open Space and author of OPEN SPACE: A USERS GUIDE
- John Buck, expert on consent as applied to Sociocracy, and co-author (with Sharon Villenes) of WE THE PEOPLE
- …and many more !
Can a genuine process-change take root in ANY organization WITHOUT THE CONSENT of the people affected?
Has this EVER worked?
Consider the American BILL OF RIGHTS. Here is how it starts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed
“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
And so…here is THE question: Do you care to comment?
Steps:
- Click this link to create an account:
- https://cf.agilealliance.org/identity/create.php
- ..when prompted for money, IMMEDIATELY go to your email. There you will find a “confirmation email” which will finalize and authorize your new account when you click through…
- …from there you can (and I hope WILL) add a comment to the session “The Virtue of Coercion”: authored by one “Timothy Turnstone”….
- https://submissions.agilealliance.org/sessions/3408
Kind Regards,
Daniel