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In this episode of FailCraft, delivery and transformation consultant,former tech lead, and founder of The Curious Coffee Club, Simon Copsey, joinsEzekiel to explore why enterprise digital transformations so frequentlycollapse and how organizations constantly stand in their own way. Starting hiscareer writing code before realizing that the most debilitating bugs exist incommunication and team structure, Simon shares his candid lessons from failingas an early engineering manager and burning out by attempting to micromanagedevelopers like video game avatars. He breaks down how management beliefsfilter what leaders perceive, how Eliyahu Goldratt’s Theory of Constraintsidentifies the single operational bottleneck choking throughput, why parentingand executive management share an identical indirect psychological model, andhow to isolate the fuel feeding organizational fires instead of merely sprayingcorporate air freshener on deep-seated dysfunction.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction:Simon Copsey & The Hidden Bugs Behind the Screen
02:35 How BeliefsFilter Reality: Lessons from Neuroscience & Consulting
05:24 Why DigitalTransformations Fail: Mindsets Over Egos
08:10 Failing as a NewManager: The Danger of Treating Teams Like Video Game Avatars
10:34 EliyahuGoldratt’s Theory of Constraints: Finding the Single Pipe Bottleneck
13:56 UprootingDepartmental Turf Wars: Beyond Corporate Air Freshener
16:27 The ParentingParadox: Leading Humans Indirectly
19:20 Putting OutFires: Cutting the Fuel Source When Chaos Hits
22:02 DefiningSuccess, Personal Freedom & Navigating the Security Dilemma
26:06 The CuriousDebate: Cats vs. Dogs & False Dichotomies
28:23 Connect withSimon at CuriousCoffee.club
