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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.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

Harvard Business

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict. You and Your Team Series.