Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager. I've been talking about servant leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Manage for effectiveness.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

If you're trying to use an agile approach, what do you care about in terms of finishing: That the team finish the work, regardless of the personal or team cost? Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.)

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See my pairing, swarming, and mobbing post or the Project Lifecycles book.) See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. But, shared services create delays and costs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Full disclosure: I met Andy back in 1999 at the Software Development conference. I'm thrilled to say he did that with the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. As part of our discussion about the Modern Management Made Easy books, we spoke about: Congruence. So we've known each other for a long time.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 20, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy transformations organizations and delivers results. Agile strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results while simultaneously developing leaders, aligning teams, changing the way the organization works, and energizing people.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. What else will you find in this book? Enjoy the reading!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A More Compassionate Leader Of all the traits that you want to develop as a leader, where does compassion fit in? When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. Harvard Business Review agrees.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2015

During this two-day, highly interactive, case-based workshop we will share insights from our forthcoming book bringing to life three and four dimensional organizational structures in some of the world’s largest and most complex global companies. Identifying, selecting, and developing leaders to work in a complex matrix.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2020

Several weeks ago, I posted my innovation principles , based on Modern Management Made Easy , book 3. I developed them because I was discovering the user journey through the book. Of course, I also created principles for managing yourself (Book 1) and for leading and serving others (Book 2). Of course, I did.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 28, 2015

Nigel is the author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow , a must have book “for any manager, leader or Minister.” They had a similar platform for managing agile software development programs, which is now used in many large companies around the world. And that is about political leadership and business leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Think of new product development, or the parts of the company’s value chain and business model that are undergoing significant reinvention because of digital transformations. In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? The idea that organizational structure follows strategy is not new — business historian Alfred Chandler laid this out in 1962 in his book Strategy & Structure. Insight center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Dealing effectively with emotions is a key leadership skill. These experiments also revealed that over time those who wrote about their feelings began to develop insights into what those feelings meant (or didn’t mean!), If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.) Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 18, 2016

In my book The Art of Change Leadership I interviewed a number of leaders in organizations where meaning and purpose are a focus and these companies are thriving not only in business growth and customer happiness but also with employee happiness and engagement. I consider both Josh and Gary evolutionary leaders. We have the place!

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Since 2020, due to working primarily remotely , people developed a tendency to compensate for less office presence with more digital meetings. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. BOOK A CALL AND BOOST PRODUCTIVITY!

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 30, 2013

How often do you browse new books and select one based on its cover? T hought Leadership. Have you developed a roadmap to follow that contains the action steps you need to execute to implement your business and Internet strategy? These could be how-to tips, checklists, and discussions with provoking and interesting experts.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Everyone likes to talk about being “customer-centric.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

While working as a director of learning and organization development at Google, eBay and J.P. So how can we develop resilience and stay motivated in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change? Develop mental agility.

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The more flexible and agile your mind the more quickly you can adapt to a new change or situation. Personally in the past few days I put my back out – it HURT- I have many things going on, home renovation, rebranding project, new book project, client demands, family commitments and more. you get the picture. Everything else?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies). Here too, digital natives dominate. Ford or Tesla?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy. The first key ingredient is in how teams are selected.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. And, when our seeking systems are activated, we feel more motivated, purposeful, and zestful. We feel more alive. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. Leading retailers have developed the ability to nimbly change direction, even based on beta testing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.

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