What It Means To be a New Age Digital Leader w/ Sid Tobias EP 18

Passion Struck with John R. Miles

John R. Miles

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we interview Director, Digital Standards Office, Technology and Business Transformation, Advanced Education and Skills Training, Sid Tobias who shares with us his distilled wisdom on agile workflow and digital leadership. He mentors new digital teams with the BCDevExchange and teaches digital leadership to executives. Before this, Sid has served for 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. We start this show with Sid sharing a life-changing incident that sparked his interest in agile methodology. In 2002, when Sid was stationed aboard a Canadian destroyer in the Persian Gulf near Afghanistan, Canadians' training exercise was wrongly deciphered as a threat by an American F-16 bomber. The F-16 pilot decided to retaliate, and many innocent lives were lost in the aftermath. The Canadian and American leaders were quick to take responsibility and collaborated closely to ensure there was no repeat of such unfortunate incidents. This incident was also the pivot point that made Sid go agile. “How can leaders develop and introduce work procedures that create bigger and more frequent success opportunities across the board?” wondered Sid. You will learn the importance of being a true “Servant Leader” or Leader Gardener” who can recognize the weakest signals from team employees to result in a truly collaborative approach. As a public safety transformational specialist, Sid emphasizes the importance of a team-driven work approach. We also compare and contrast the waterfall approach to the agile approach. And reveal how a shift towards agile can help organizations fail cheap and pivot quickly. You will also learn how the agile methodology allows the government to rope in private sector enterprises for top-secret projects. Enjoy! Question That I Ask In Today’s Show

Why did you decide to get educated in the Agile Methodology?
What are some of the major obstacles in the digital transformation drive?
From your time in the military, what is the most important leadership lesson that you learned?
What are the three words that describe being a Canadian?

What You Will Learn In This Show

An agile vs. Waterfall approach
How going agile can allow you to fail cheap and pivot quickly
Giving up the command-and-control management style and being a “Leader Gardener” to your people instead
How going agile can help ensure the success of public-private partnerships
And so much more…

Resources BC Dev Exchange - https://bcdevexchange.org/ Sid's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidtobias/ How to Contact the Show --- Follow Passion Struck on Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/passion_struck_podcast -- Combat veteran, multi-industry CEO, and Author John R. Miles is on a mission to make passion go viral by helping growth seekers to overcome their fear, self-doubt, and adversity. He loves taking his own life experiences, lessons from his time as a CEO and Fortune 50 C-Level Executive, and the truths he has learned to help make other's lives better. His new podcast Passion Struck provides inspirational interviews and powerful guidance for people to take their lives to the next level. Watch as these high achievers weigh in on life's biggest questions and challenges as we journey on the path to becoming passion-struck. -- Follow John R. Miles Here: Website - https://passionstruck.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_r_miles Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Johnrmiles.c0m Twitter: https://twitter.com/Milesjohnr Medium: https://medium.com/@JohnRMiles John's Website: https://johnrmiles.com/ - John's New eBook - The Passion Struck Framework https://passionstruck.com/coaching/

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0:00.0	One of the things that have really appealed to leaders to do at all levels is go to the sprint review, go to the demo.
0:08.8	See what they've built in the past two weeks. If you're worried about metrics, look at the client's eyes when they see that thing that has been built.
0:18.4	And you know, you get from them, wow, they're really excited about that.
0:22.2	I think it's time to be realistic about it as well and start measuring outcomes instead of putting those outputs or those milestone things that you set in the road that were arbitrarily came up with because chances are you never talk to a developer or development team, but how long it's going to take to get to that milestone.
0:43.2	Welcome to the PassionStruck podcast. My name is John Miles, a former combat veteran in multi industry CEO, turned entrepreneur and human performance expert.
0:56.2	Each week we showcase an inspirational person and message that helps you unlock your hidden potential and unleash your creativity and leadership abilities.
1:05.2	Thank you for spending time with me today and let's get igniting.
1:15.2	Thank you for joining me on the PassionStruck podcast. Author and venture capitalist Antonio Belos Santos said our role as business leaders is to understand the strategic implications of digital transformation.
1:31.2	Lead the way forward and implement our vision for the future of our businesses and their contribution to the communities we support through our activities.
1:43.2	There is no doubt that the impacts of digital transformation are having profound impacts on us both in our careers, in our futures and how we need to approach both of them.
1:55.2	And this is a great lead in for yesterday said Tobias who is leading this revolution in British Columbia and teaching others his wisdom.
2:05.2	Sit and I discuss how he made a big change in the direction of his career is transition from the armed forces to government service.
2:14.2	What it means to be a gardener leader and what the future of digital development and digital leadership looks like for the British Columbia government.
2:22.2	Sit Tobias is the director digital standards office for the ministry advanced education and training in British Columbia.
2:31.2	Yes 25 years with Canadian Armed Forces working in naval joint and combined forces in his time with the forces he was a specialist joint interface control officer.
2:43.2	Canadian joint tactical data link coordinator, hawkson or head chief of the HMS Ottawa and chairman of the NATO tactical data link has been formally recognized for his work in leadership by NATO, ASIC, Hungary, Poland, Greece and Canada.
3:01.2	And he's quick to admit that none of his accomplishments would have been possible without exceptional mentorship leadership and the support of international teams.
3:14.2	I am thrilled to have him on the show today and I think there is so much to be learned from him in this interview we're about ready to hear.
3:22.2	There is so much you can learn from Sid and I'm absolutely thrilled to talk to him today.
3:30.2	It's good to buy us thank you so much for coming on today's episode of passion struck I am so excited to talk to you and I think the listeners are going to learn so much from you from both your military service to your government service that you're doing now in British Columbia.
3:51.2	Thank you so much for being on the show.
3:53.2	Absolutely, pleasure John, thanks for having me. Well, Sid you have had a really interesting career and thank you for your 25 years of service to your country.
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