Hot Cause as Story

1. Strong Emotions 

Negative - Aggression Zone (Killing the Dragon)

Positive - Passion Zone (Winning the Princess)

2. Weak Emotions

Negative - Resignation Zone (Slam the Claim/ Putting people first Marshall)

Positive - Comfort Zone (Cost Efficiency Ayling/ Wells Fargo: Good to Great)

Cut Cognitive Load

Magic number 7 +- 2. Storage memory. 

Ignoring cognitive load can create lot of problems. 

Excessive Cognitive Load undermines the ability of people to do what they know and believe they should. 

Understand how to reduce load

Amazon Two Pizza rules - Team size should be less than the team who can eat two pizzas and if there is third pizza order it has too many people. 

The Subtraction Game - As a rule for subtraction 

Subtraction Process.

Constant load on people - Subtraction is very important. 

Meetings and removing the meetings

Scaling/ Reducing Cognitive load- 

Clear Priorities and Initiatives. Top 3 things in a quarterly objectives.

Focus on important priorities. Getting Discipline. 

Getting more done by giving space and time. Designing and decision. Reliance on Communication gets more important. 

CONNECT AND CASCADE

Lack of connections leads to ignorance.

Domino chain of goodness/ good aspect being followed.

New Locale to get excellence. 

Mentoring is one way to increase excellence.

One to Many - Getting coaches

Many to Few - Getting Few people trained and share the knowledge within the group and regroup with larger group. 

Many to Many - Brain Storm - Formalize Mode and Execution mode - Pain storm/solution and Code Jams.

Spread excellence - 

Using the prototype and understand the outcome of the problem before applying the principle across the organization. 

Scalability happen when making the prototypes more and more workable before scaling to every part of the country or region on a product.