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Accelerating Your Agile Journey Podcast

Johanna Rothman

I had the chance to talk with Andy Kaufman on his podcast, Accelerating Your Agile Journey, PPP 2017. We spoke about many of the ideas in Create Your Successful Agile Project : Learning early (instead of failing fast). We’ve had the chance to speak informally and more formally on his podcast. Servant leadership.

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Fun Discussion About Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer with Mark Leslie Lefebvre

Johanna Rothman

I met Mark back in 2017 when I attended an Anthology workshop from the nice folks at WMG Publishing. For you agile types, Mark runs his podcast as a reflection—a retrospective—of what he learned from speaking with the guest. I sold two short stories at that workshop, my very first short story sales.

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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. What is mismatched management? Micro-management is a hard habit to break.

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Agile Practice Guide Interview with Mike Griffiths

Johanna Rothman

Last year, I was part of a geographically distributed team who wrote the Agile Practice Guide. Shane Hastie interviewed us during Agile 2017. is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide. See Bridging Mindsets: Creating the Agile Practice Guide.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

When leaders solicit ideas from others outside the traditionally involved management team, it improves the creativity of the ideas and reinforces that leaders value employees. However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Doolittle, J.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Business organisations and management consultants have long had a contractual rather than an employer/employee relationship. In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. They also need to manage their own training, resource development, and financing.