Recommended reading and viewing from Kaizen Camp, Melbourne, 2013

Here are some references I took down during the recent unconference, which might be described as Lean Coffee, crossed with Open Space.

Cognitive biases

• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Jim Benson, Why Plans Fail [Kindle]
• Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational

Patterns of Learned Helplessness

• Definition of learned helplessness [wikipedia]
• How to fold a t-shirt in five seconds [video]
• Kaizen explained and applied to unloading a dishwasher [video]

Kanban

• Jim Benson, Personal Kanban
• David Anderson, Kanban

Systems

• Ian MacDonald et al, Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations
• Stafford Beer, Viable System Model [wikipedia]

The Power of Silence

• Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Humour and Creativity

• Peter McGraw, humorcode.com
• John Cleese, a lecture on creativity [video]
• Various Italian architecture students, helium stick [video]
• Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Lean Operations

• Tim Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis
• Tim Gallwey, The Inner Game of Stress

JFGI

• Kaizen - change for the better
• Kaikaku - radical change
• Cynefin
• Deming, System of Profound Knowledge
• Goldratt, Theory of Constraints
• Toyota Production System
• Game Theory, Ultimatum game, Prisoner's Dilemma
• Lean Coffee
• Scaled Agile Framework, Portfolio Kanban
• sociocracy

Next: Check out Chris Chan's reflections and pics, and Lynne Cazaly's drawings.