The Waggle Room - Ep 9 - Nigel Thurlow - Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership and Teams

The Waggle Room - Ep 9 - Nigel Thurlow - Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership and TeamsNigel Thurlow brings decades of experience from Toyota, complexity thinking, and organisational transformation to a conversation that challenges how we think about leadership, tools, and the future of work.Guest: Nigel Thurlow — Executive Coach, Board Advisor, Co-Creator of The Flow System®, and Creator of Scrum The Toyota Way™. Deep expertise in complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science.Nigel Thurlow brings decades of experience from Toyota, complexity thinking, and organisational transformation to a conversation that challenges how we think about leadership, tools, and the future of work. From the Toyota Production System to the dangers of abdicating decision-making to AI, Nigel unpacks why most organisational change fails — and what leaders are missing.Topics: complexity thinking, distributed leadership, Toyota Production System, AI decision-making, team science, organisational changeHighlights

Why Toyota isn't a collection of tools — it's all about behaviours, discipline, and human factors

The theatre of consulting: why transformation programmes fail every three years

Distributed leadership and transferring ownership of decision-making to those doing the work

Red is not bad — red means 'I need help': building cultures that embrace problems, not hide them

The Peter Principle and promoting people to their level of incompetence

AI as intelligent automation: will we serve the machine, or will it serve us?

Weak signals we're ignoring: social media, misinformation, and the slow drift toward machine subservience

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