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Episode 843

Wiring an Organization’s Social Circuitry: Bestselling Author & Award-Winning CTO Gene Kim on Leadership and Agility

February 5, 2024
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About the Guest

Gene Kim

Author of Wiring the Winning Organization; Co-Founder & fmr. CTO of Tripwire
Gene Kim is the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Tripwire, a company he helped to lead for 13 years, dating until 2010. Soon thereafter, he turned his full-time attention to studying and writing about high-performing organizations. He helped kick off the DevOps revolution with his mega-bestseller, The Phoenix Project, in 2013. Gene has since gone on to author or co-author numerous other books, including The Unicorn Project, The DevOps Handbook, and Accelerate. His latest book, co-authored with Steven J. Spear, is Wiring the Winning Organization. He has also been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit since 2014, studying the technology transformations of large complex organizations.

Episode Overview

843: The introduction of DevOps and Agile practices revolutionized organizational management, but while these practices helped organizations tackle once-daunting challenges, other problems still remained. In order to help these companies develop better mechanisms for problem-solving and create high-performance teams, award-winning CTO Gene Kim along with his co-author Dr. Steven J. Spear wrote Wiring the Winning Organization with a groundbreaking new theory of organizational management. In this episode, Gene joins Peter in a conversation about this theory and how organizations can win by using three key approaches: slowification, simplification, and amplification. Throughout the conversation, Gene explains each of these three approaches, describes in detail the research he conducted on their benefits, and exemplifies what a successful adoption of that approach looks like. Finally, Gene shares his broader perspective on the evolution of IT, leadership, and organizational management.

 

“"What is it that leaders do? Our conclusion is that it's absolutely about the way the organization is wired and that the leaders are ultimately responsible for creating the organizational wiring that causes the organization to be at one extreme or the other.""

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