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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. And, us agilists need to change.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible.

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. metric tons, or 0.3 We were there in 2000, 2007, and it's going to happen again. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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How the U.S. Army Redesigned Its Mental Health System

Harvard Business

From 2007 to 2012 the Army health care system grew rapidly — with little central coordination — to meet the surging care needs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Adopt a service-line-management process to systematically connect strategic goals to actual clinical care.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!

MishTalk

In 2006-2007 I called for a recession. Consensus opinion is batting a perfect 0.00% Investigating the Record By the way, the ECRI was late in calling the recession of 2007. Consensus opinion is batting a perfect 0.00% Investigating the Record By the way, the ECRI was late in calling the recession of 2007. We got a big one.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. We calculate that U.S.