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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is a high ROI investment into your success and business growth. Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed. Here are three keys to effectively partnering for performance.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Microsoft delivered enormous wins to shareholders for decades before losing momentum to smaller agile companies as well as the likes of Apple and Google. In early 2014, after much dialogue with leadership around the company, he announced that he was going to tighten the focus of the business on brand building. a) Agility.

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