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When Agile Meets Regulatory Compliance

BCG

Article Thursday, July 06, 2017 Agile may seem risky and impractical for regulatory projects, but it offers extraordinary benefits and can give banks an edge over competitors.

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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

The best strategies in business meet the following four criteria: developed inclusive of followers, focus on helping others for the greater good, account for mixed future realities, and are implemented. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive.

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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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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

From being vulnerable to saying what others don't want to hear to endless Zoom meetings. The next time you find yourself in a meeting, and you don't know why you are there. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. In fact, sometimes, it's incredibly challenging.

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. For instance, 40 percent of U.S. These are workers who often want more flexibility for themselves than traditional employees in a corporate setting.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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