Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

I had great fun with Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov on their podcast, “Keeping Agile Non-Denominational.” You've seen or heard about this problem: Senior leadership says, “Yes we need agility!” ” The teams say, “Yes, we got the agile goodness here!” ” And the middle managers?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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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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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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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

Sure by the end of being coached by you, someone might get rid themselves of false beliefs, bad job or toxic relationships and you might apply your 5-step process in your consulting, but that isn't what is going to get a client to excitedly book a free consult with you to learn more about what you do. Go to Amazon.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I Yes, there are 8 parts!).

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? You will also have time to think.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2017

I have a new book in beta, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. I’m so excited about this book. Agile approaches create more opportunities for jelled, performing teams. And, many teams find agile approaches tease them farther apart, not together.

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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

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can apply lean and agile thinking to management actions—especially decisions. We discussed many ideas about agile management in the podcast: You can count “done” things (as opposed to estimating from the requirements up), both to understand a team's capacity and for the project portfolio.

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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? Agile teams always know who did what. I updated this in the book.) In agile organizations, peers offer this feedback, not (just) the managers.

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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

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.) Want to Rethink Your Management or Leadership? If you want to rethink your management, start with my books. You won't regret it.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.).

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. What else will you find in this book?

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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Yes, books, not articles.). Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. However, this Dan and the rest of the HR department had no idea what agile and lean could look like for any department.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. How we might want to say, “serving” leadership instead of “servant” leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. We had a wide-ranging discussion, about my fiction writing, my books, how agile approaches affect the organization and how people can think differently when the teams and managers use agile approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2020

As I complete the Modern Management Made Easy books, I realize I need to explain how much tolerance an organization has for experiments. If you're working on a culture change such as an agile transformation, see if you can understand what the organization rewards. That might be your first step to creating a more agile culture.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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. Being a compassionate leader may not be separately listed, but compassion is certainly part of all four foundational aspects of great leadership.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

Recently, I came across the book “ The Pyramid Principle ” by Barbara Minto, which gives an in-depth view on a framework that McKinsey consultants use to deliver effective writing. This post will summarize the key ideas in the book and how you can apply the framework to your job. What is the Minto Pyramid Principle?

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Ben de Haldevang

JUNE 7, 2023

Some of you have also been kind enough to give me your thoughts on the book. A few quotes below: “I finished your book last night : it makes enjoyable reading, with a good balance between narrative and concepts. But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”!

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't. I addressed this particular issue in books 2 and 3. Once you discuss the problem with the person, discuss the problem with the team. Explain that you made a mistake. First, they are rare.

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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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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization. That will help everyone avoid bounce-back to non-agile approaches. Then do join us.

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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

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). 7 principles for each book.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 4, 2021

See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). And don't get me started on books. I've published almost 20 books. It doesn't matter how many editors I use, I can open a book anywhere and find a problem within a couple of pages. We often stop writing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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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. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

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