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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Ideas are tagged and compared through comparison sorts. However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive.

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What Writers Can Do About Informal Plagiarism, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. At the speaker's dinner, I sat across the table from someone who said he focused on the problems of the portfolio and management in agile transformations. Maybe I could learn something.

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Component Teams Create Coupling in Products and Organizations

Johanna Rothman

This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product. See the influence tag on this site for many articles and posts.). The more you need an agile approach for the business, the more you will need to eliminate component teams.

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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Assymetry versus Strategic Funding

The Nonprofit Consultant

As I wrote in my comment on Tom's blog, I love the concept that being small and agile is a competitive advantage in the corporate world. Tags: competition assymetry Nonprofit mergers management business. This brand of competition is enabled by today's technology, which dramatically reduces the barriers to entry.

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Building the New “Mega Segments”: Which Content Providers Will Play to Win? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM COGNIZANT

Harvard Business

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. To what extent is your organization’s metadata tagged to make it easily searchable? By now, most IME companies have invested to some degree in digital content ecosystems.

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The Mental Benefits of Vacationing Somewhere New

Harvard Business

The result is personal growth — greater emotional agility, empathy, and creativity. The first benefit is enhanced emotional agility , or the ability to not react immediately to emotions, but to observe those that arise, carefully collect information to understand the possible causes, then intentionally decide how to manage them.

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