Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. The post Want Business Agility?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That's how you can create the culture you want.). If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. You will also have time to think. Decide for now.).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. I've been talking about servant leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Manage for effectiveness.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. They “measure” the culture. When you transform your measurements, you can transform your system and culture.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. We have senior leadership teams. I showed Bob this picture from Book 3: Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization , and he said, “Yes! This is a people problem, created by structural and cultural problems. That's what I need!”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you're trying to use an agile approach, what do you care about in terms of finishing: That the team finish the work, regardless of the personal or team cost? Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.) In agile organizations, peers offer this feedback, not (just) the managers.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2020

As I complete the Modern Management Made Easy books, I realize I need to explain how much tolerance an organization has for experiments. If you're working on a culture change such as an agile transformation, see if you can understand what the organization rewards. That might be your first step to creating a more agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Yes, books, not articles.). Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. However, this Dan and the rest of the HR department had no idea what agile and lean could look like for any department.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. What else will you find in this book?

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Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

Some of you have also been kind enough to give me your thoughts on the book. A few quotes below: “I finished your book last night : it makes enjoyable reading, with a good balance between narrative and concepts. But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. Being a compassionate leader may not be separately listed, but compassion is certainly part of all four foundational aspects of great leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't. I addressed this particular issue in books 2 and 3. Once you discuss the problem with the person, discuss the problem with the team. Explain that you made a mistake.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 18, 2016

One of the infographic statistics states that 68% of employees feel their company doesn’t create a culture in which employees have a sense of purpose and meaningful impact. In a number of exit interviews I have conducted many employees cite lack of leadership, doing soulless work and feeling undervalued as the reason they left.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new?

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Culture Company Case Study Case Studies 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Even before I knew about agile approaches, I spent a bunch of time creating unit tests and system tests so I could know that as I fixed/added/replaced code, I hadn’t introduced any problems. If you’re wondering, this is how I write books. That culture helps managers learn how to serve the people and the products.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization. That will help everyone avoid bounce-back to non-agile approaches. Then do join us.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 28, 2015

Nigel is the author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow , a must have book “for any manager, leader or Minister.” They had a similar platform for managing agile software development programs, which is now used in many large companies around the world. And that is about political leadership and business leadership.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Other areas, however, may benefit from standardized approaches.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. Many corporate cultures require collaboration far beyond what is needed to get the job done. Executives can also work on culture and coaching.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. How can the effective meeting culture be optimized? BOOK A CALL AND BOOST PRODUCTIVITY!

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Cheryl Cran

MAY 11, 2015

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Energy Methodologies Leadership Agile 20

Cheryl Cran

MAY 11, 2015

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Energy Methodologies Leadership Agile 20

Cheryl Cran

MAY 11, 2015

The article itself begins to sound alarmist until you read on and recognize that once again CEO Tony Hsieh has shown ‘evolutionary’ leadership by providing an option for people to stay with the new direction or to opt themselves out. ” must be asked and answered daily.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies). Here too, digital natives dominate. Ford or Tesla?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. As Stephen argues in his books The Speed of Trust and Smart Trust, trust is not a soft, social virtue — it’s truly a hard, economic driver for every organization. The Business Case for Trust.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Research for our book The Founder’s Mentality found that 85% of the time, the barriers to growth cited by executives at rapidly growing companies are internal — as opposed to, say, external threats such as unreceptive customers, a misread business opportunity or the moves of a dangerous competitor. That is rare.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely.

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