Laura Powers will join the DC Lean + Agile Meetup on Wednesday, November 12th at 12pm ET.
Topic:
Bureaucracy gets a bad rap, and for good reason. Endless forms, pointless rules, and approval bottlenecks drain energy and stall progress. But here’s the twist: not all friction is bad. In fact, the right kind of friction is essential for protecting people, sparking innovation, and driving better decisions.
In this session, you’ll discover how to tell the difference between “stupid rules” that waste time and smart guardrails that create resilience. Drawing on Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao’s book The Friction Project and the Business Agility Institute’s Domains and Capabilities model, we’ll explore how leaders can design organizations where the right things are easier—and the wrong things are harder.
Join us to explore how to prune the bad friction, preserve the good, and redesign work for agility, resilience, and results.
About our Speaker:
Laura Powers is CEO of the Business Agility Institute. Over the course of her career, she's held a number of engineering and leadership positions & is living proof that you never quite know where your next career move may take you. With 25+ years of product experience ranging from R&D to marketing, to sales and professional services – she has been involved in the design of electronics for space applications, aircraft engines, diapers, electric cars, and software systems at Hewlett Packard, Agilent, Sales.com, and eBay - as well as several startups you’ve never heard of. At BAI, Laura masterminds a series of never-ending experiments to run and build the Institute using the same modern, human-centric ways of working that we research, advocate, and share with the business agility community.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurampowers/
