What were the Speed Teams most profound discoveries and changes?
You can’t achieve great speed without great people. And great people can’t make a real difference without powerful leaders to motivate them along the way. During the course of our Speed Team work, we found many people working at less than 50% of their potential. We saw a lot of action, and we saw things moving really fast, but we didn’t see people conceiving great ideas. We dug deeper and discovered that people didn’t feel empowered. They understood the processes, but they didn’t feel they had any leverage to change or improve them. So we taughts our leaders how to draw the greatest potential out of their people. We helped them understand that they must unleash the power of their teams to achieve the kind of speed we expected. Make your people feel that anything is possible, and they will blow your mind. How have the definition and significance of “speed” changed at IBM in the past year? Five years ago, we thought speed was important. One year ago, we knew speed was important. Now spee
