Geoff Mazeroff

This week our book club talked about chapter 19 and the final parts of the book. Chapter 19 Parts Unlimited is fully bought into sharing quarterly innovations. Jameson said the challenge in practical implementations is motivating people to participate in…

This week our book club talked about chapters 16-18. Chapter 16 The CEO is prioritizing having employees share problems they’d like solved, choosing which ones to prioritize, and giving teams the time to solve them. These innovation centers are following…

This week our book club talked about chapters 13-15. Chapter 13 We liked the notion of a “whitespace change” deployment, where you make a change to something trivial like adding extra line breaks, and get everything completely out the door….

This week our book club talked about chapters 10-12. Chapter 10 The analogy to having multiple Hollywood screenwriters trying to smash all of their scripts together at the last minute with very little coordination seemed implausible to Geoff. However, Jameson…

This week our book club talked about chapters 7 through 9. Chapter 7 We liked the analogy of four strands of yarn being a simple system, yet once you braid those strands that system becomes “complected.” Being able to continually…

This week our book club talked about chapters 4 through 6. Chapter 4 The Phoenix Project is launching anyway despite no one having confidence in any shape or form. There’s a serious lack of communication about how this should work,…

Having read The Phoenix Project last year, our book club has chosen The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data for our next read. We’ve (Houston Miller, Jameson McGhee, and me) added…