Not everyone will be replaced.

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One of our key results is to maximise learnings per minute!

You belong in this room!
Come on your own or host a table for your organisation and include a few individuals you're seeking to influence.

Powerful stories. Practical learning. Useful, long-term connections!

Tickets available now!

The conference will be an intimate gathering of leaders across roles, industries, and levels, driving better outcomes through better ways of working. It is a day designed to build useful connections that last and practical peer-to-peer collaboration with people leading changes in large organisations

The Sooner Safer Happier LIVE conference is happening on 9th September in London, UK! The focus is on improving outcomes organisation-wide. Click here to find out more and to register: www.soonersaferhappier.com/heretogether

Sunk cost fallacy? Pah, try harder.

What could possibly go wrong?

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▶️ Use language like "drop dead date", "death march" and "DEADline", with analogies of death. A tool for motivation!

▶️ If value has not been delivered in the first 12 months, throw more money in and pull the cart with square wheels even harder. Double down on deterministic ways of working.

people doing the work and without speaking to the customer. Because the PM knows best!

▶️ Success is defined as meeting a pre-determined milestone for pre-determined output, determined at the point of knowing the least, in an emergent domain. "Late" is punished. A Red RAG status is a mark of shame.

Announcing the revolutionary new way of working framework: Stop Learning Output Wins (SLOW)!

▶️ Separate thinking from doing with the Planning Department, the Big Up Front Annual Plan and Project Managers who determine a plan at the point of having learnt the least without getting input from the

(14) The rise and rise of a scientific mindset This is the 14th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series. It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of working have evolved, and the context that those ways of…

Read here: www.soonersaferhappier.com/post/14-the-...
Enjoy and please share your thoughts!

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With the growth of the 2nd and 3rd Industrial Revolutions, conversations increasingly included scientific observations, experiments, methods and measures. As is the case with each Industrial Revolution, it was engineers who were at the forefront of innovating new ways of working.

In order to share learnings, societies formed - engineering was increasingly being treated as a science, rather than as a craft or an art, as had been the case with Guilds and apprenticeships and a rule-of-thumb approach.

Many of the key people behind Scientific Management, such as Professor Thurston, Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, Carl Barth, James Dodge, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Horace Hathaway and Charles Day, were mechanical engineers, as students, practitioners and teachers.

as well as its lineage from the Scientific Revolution, and some of the key figures and the connections that influenced it, in order to understand why we work the way we do today and to (re)learn lessons from the past.

Have you read the new blog post (number 14) in the Organising for Outcomes series?
In this blog post, we look at the ongoing innovation in ways of working as part of the 3rd Industrial Revolution, the more well-known Scientific Management,

▶️ Meet at least every 2 weeks (once a month is too infrequent for community and heartbeat)

▶️ Goals: (1) Shared Learning (2) Community building, belonging: "I've found my people". It makes it safe to change. There is a group I can be with.

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Communities of Practice (CoPs) are a great way to identify and nurture the natural innovators, the crazy hill dancers, in your organisation!

▶️ Voluntary, Law of Two Feet (come and go as you want)

▶️ Two co-chairs and a small organising group, when it gets larger, to organise and chair the sessions.

The joys of agile water-scrum-fall!

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Powerful stories. Practical learning. Useful, long-term connections!

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⭐️ Organisational-wide improvement and learning (not limited to one functional role-based silo)
⭐️ Any culture hacks and ninja moves in your unique context!

You belong in this room!
Come on your own or host a table for your organisation and include a few individuals you're seeking to influence.

⭐️ Practical experiences with specific, concrete insights others can learn from
⭐️ You are never 'done'. Even if you think you don't have much to share, you probably do!
⭐️ We are particularly interested in Experience Reports, which can be followed year on year

▶️ Build your reputation and attract talent
▶️ Inspire others while accelerating your own learning journey
▶️ Build your network and be part of a like-minded community

What we’re looking for:
⭐️ Honest, powerful stories of improving outcomes through better ways of working within complex organisations

Sooner Safer Happier LIVE 2026: Call for Speakers Share Your Story. Help Leaders Improve How Work Gets Done.Across organisations everywhere, leaders are rethinking how work happens — not just what get...

this is your chance to submit a talk and share what you’ve learned with a community that cares deeply about progress and to learn from others.

Submit a CFP here: sessionize.com/ssh-live-2026/

Why speak?

▶️ Celebrate the progress you and your teams have made

and practical, peer-to-peer collaboration with people leading changes in large organisations. One of our key results is to maximise learnings per minute!

If you have been improving how your organisation delivers value, shaping culture, or helping teams achieve better outcomes,

The conference is designed as an intimate gathering of leaders across roles, industries, and levels, driving better outcomes through better ways of working. It is a day designed to build useful connections that last

The first-ever Sooner Safer Happier LIVE conference is happening on 9th September in London, UK, and you can buy a ticket or submit a talk proposal now! The focus is on improving outcomes organisation-wide. Click here to find out more and to register: www.soonersaferhappier.com/heretogether

(14) The rise and rise of a scientific mindset This is the 14th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series. It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of working have evolved, and the context that those ways of…

As is the case with each Industrial Revolution, it was engineers who were at the forefront of innovating new ways of working. 

Read here: www.soonersaferhappier.com/post/14-the-...

Enjoy and please share your thoughts!

#BVSSH

apprenticeships and a rule-of-thumb approach. With the growth of the 2nd and 3rd Industrial Revolutions, conversations increasingly included scientific observations, experiments, methods and measures.

and Charles Day, were mechanical engineers, as students, practitioners and teachers.

In order to share learnings, societies formed - engineering was increasingly being treated as a science, rather than as a craft or an art, as had been the case with Guilds and

that influenced it, in order to understand why we work the way we do today and to (re)learn lessons from the past. 

Many of the key people behind Scientific Management, such as Professor Thurston, Frederick Taylor, Henry Gantt, Carl Barth, James Dodge, Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Horace Hathaway

New blog post (number 14 in the series): In this blog post, we look at the ongoing innovation in ways of working as part of the 3rd Industrial Revolution, the more well-known Scientific Management, as well as its lineage from the Scientific Revolution, and some of the key figures and the connections