Simon Associates

MAY 12, 2020

During this crisis period filled with uncertainty and disruption, you might pause, step back and turn lemons into lemonade. There probably isn’t much else you can do. You can listen to it here.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 11, 2023

How do you rate power? The Competition : Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, we’ve seen a lot of people really rethink their relationship to the platform and in some cases to social media in general. He averaged 3M viewers at the end of his time on FOX News. I didn’t see much analysis from a strategic standpoint.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I love where the product is going. See Knowing When You Release Value.) He asked, What Decisions Will You Make Based on This Data? Their cycle time decreased. While busy-work wastes time, that waste is not the worst part. The result is that people don't want to go to work every day.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. Each of these books is timely, insightful, and one to consider adding to your reading list – and library. New Books on Leadership and Change.

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 6, 2020

Are you wondering where you should put your business and marketing focus right now? Where should I be putting my attention?” Your companies do not need a communication campaign about how much you care about the state of the world. Feel free to borrow whatever feels useful to you. Stay posted!

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2020

Many people talk about “going back to normal.” ” We aren't going to return to normal. Discovery requires short experiments where we can learn something, maybe every day. Discovery requires short experiments where we can learn something, maybe every day. What we can do is discover a new normal.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 29, 2018

This approach is really just an elegant adaptation of the lean precept of going to the gemba. Directors receive these memos a few days in advance of the board meeting, during which time they can ask questions within the memo. I doubt Netflix was thinking how Jim Womack would apply lean to their board meetings.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maybe 7, depending on how you count. (I Their real-time collaboration was a mess. Since people had trouble collaborating, they encountered Conway's Law, where the architecture of the product reflected the splintering of the team. Cluster teams have people in several locations, with collocated people in some locations.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. And you realize your current career ladder isn't working for you—or the people you serve. You would like more lateral, not just vertical options to support any person's growth. What can you do for your career ladder? ” Who agrees with you? Educate them.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

I’m back from Hollywood, FL where I got to take Eric Fuller and his daughter to one of my favorite restaurants and the most famous bar in Ft Lauderdale. You shoot for the stars on something like this because you likely will only get one chance at real change. There we are. To the Tickets! In my research, the big word is respect.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Once you got in your queue—anywhere—you didn’t get out. Once you got in your queue—anywhere—you didn’t get out. Well, not until the queue spit you out, into the one way that the airport wanted you to go. Somehow, the Israelis were really good at getting you to go where they wanted you to go.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2020

The more dispersed we are, the more we need that socialization time. I'm fond of the chat backchannel, but you might want to use the chat in the tool. I'm fond of the chat backchannel, but you might want to use the chat in the tool. What if you have someone who talks or chats “too much?”

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Here’s the thing, to keep parents in the workforce, we need to rethink what is feasible. Working parents are not okay. In August, I wrote that leaders need to take bold and innovative actions to transform the organization to support working parents and create a culture that will accelerate gender, racial, and ethnic equality.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I didn't tell you why. How do you budget your own money and time? If you're like me, you have a plan for the year. If your feedback loops are one year in duration, how can you afford to change anything? You don’t make bets for a year at a time. You can make bets for a quarter or less at a time.

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LSA Global

JUNE 12, 2020

Time to Assess and Rethink How Work Gets Done – Is Your Culture Helping or Hindering Your Strategy? What we do know is that now is the time to assess and rethink how we want our ways of thinking, behaving, living, and working to evolve and improve. But we can be sure that there will be changes.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

If you can see them, you might be able to plan for smaller and deliver smaller.). Consider lean roadmapping where we intend to pull work instead of iteration-based roadmapping where it’s too easy to push work. If you prefer to release on a cadence, go ahead.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 3, 2020

For those organizations not at the top of the pack, it is time to rethink the strategic planning process and revamp strategy cascading and execution in a way that moves both the people and the business forward. Are you targeting the right clients? What truly differentiates you from the pack ?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements. In this post, I’ll address the collaboration measures you might want to consider. (I

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

After several interview rounds I got to the assessment day (AD) selection where one of the assignments was a business case. For my first AD I went without really preparing and totally blew it up (actually I believed that you cannot prepare for such things, you're either smart enough or not). It's amazing how your advice actually works!

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Selecting a handful of possible measurements you might select, to reinforce behaviors you want to see. If you define the business reasons for using agile approaches (and I have yet to see an organization utilize just one agile approach), you can decide on an agile transformation roadmap and learn to create your agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2020

The more dispersed we are, the more we need that socialization time. I'm fond of the chat backchannel, but you might want to use the chat in the tool. I'm fond of the chat backchannel, but you might want to use the chat in the tool. What if you have someone who talks or chats “too much?”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If we get all the people in the room who contributed to that deliverable, they can rethink component teams for flow. If we get all the people in the room who contributed to that deliverable, they can rethink component teams for flow. They can see decision lag times. How the teams work and their team culture.

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Rod Burkert

AUGUST 28, 2019

In fact, so much so, that it made me rethink my AICPA membership. How do you fill the know, like, and trust buckets with people who don’t already know you … and who happen to stumble across your website or LinkedIn profile? And if you’re new here, welcome aboard. And now I have dropped that as well.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You and Your Team Series. Stop Trying to Sound Smart When You’re Writing. Despite the organizational benefits of engagement, global estimates indicate that most employees are not fully engaged at work — particularly in developed economies, where employees’ expectations are highest. Communication. Liane Davey.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Understanding where your customers are and how to reach them in a seamless fashion is the cornerstone of any modern customer experience. Unfortunately, by the time a customer typically reaches your contact center it means you have failed to deliver an effortless experience. Rethink contact centers as ‘customer’ centers.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 31, 2017

You can read the other parts here: Part 1 – Perfecting Your Home Page. When a potential client comes to your website, how easy is it for them to contact you? When a potential client comes to your website, how easy is it for them to contact you? And more important — how persuasive is it in getting them to contact you?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Maybe you got a dressing-down from an angry client. Or overheard the nickname your team has for you. They don’t even really know what you do. They don’t even really know what you do. What should you do when this happens to you? You wouldn’t know creative if it smacked you in the face.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. What can you do if you, like Alex, want to face your fear of screwing up and push beyond it to success? Here are four steps you can take: Redefine failure. Here are four steps you can take: Redefine failure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

We all have times when we wonder, “Am I at the right company? How should you address a mid-career crisis? How should you address a mid-career crisis? What actions can you take to improve your professional satisfaction? How can you combat the dullness and tedium of your workaday life? Lynn Koenig/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I’m working with a CEO who’s in the midst of rethinking her company’s strategy so it can better meet customer demands and thrive financially. Studies on organizational change show that leaders across the board agree: if you want to lead a successful transformation, communicating empathetically is critical.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps a negative comment from your boss deflated you or you’re not excited about a particular assignment. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job you love, it’s common to go through lengthy periods where you need to dig deep to feel excited about your work. Or is it them?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Lead time trends). Where are our bottlenecks?). Do we know our flow, our value stream, and where we add value and where we wait? “What should I measure???” What do we want less of? Cost of Delay).

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2022

Many workers ask, ‘why go back?’. Research from Jabra showed that 77% of workers want more flexibility in how and where they work. Access to a wider selection of jobs and personal flexibility has made remote job positions incredibly tantalizing. This leaves the American workplace at a crossroads.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Then, he either turns the car around and returns home for a day of remote work, or he continues on to his office, where his hours are flexible — he just needs to keep his boss in the loop. It’s not just the time saved on commuting — there are real financial upsides. You and Your Team Series. Remote Work.

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1 to 1

JUNE 8, 2020

Countless mentions of “digital transformation” gets us no closer to a clear understanding of what it is and its impact across an organization. Even more frightening, it seems that “digital transformation” is in itself transforming. Customer experience cannot be confined to one department or leader. 2: Become seamless inside and out.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2017

I returned to Japan, where I was working, and tried to forget about it. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver. In the workplace, many people blame their high anxiety levels on a boss, job, deadlines, or competing commitments for their time. You and Your Team Series. But I no longer worry about it.

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