Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 8, 2021

I had a terrific time with Chris and Austin on the Mob Mentality Show: Modern Management with Johanna Rothman. Is “mobbing” is the right word for management collaboration? However, the reasons we mob—to get all the people we need to learn and think together—those reasons work as well in management decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Manage for effectiveness. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). But I'm going to talk about a manager. Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. However, the senior managers didn't change their actions. The middle managers actively acted against the framework. Like that lovely tall woman.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .” ” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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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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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 also spoke about the plethora of team-based coaches and the insufficiency of management coaching. (I

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Manage for effectiveness. 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.

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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. My three most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletters were about jelled teams: The Case For Stable Teams, Part 1. The Manager’s Role in Creating Effective Teams, Part 3.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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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? also called sustainable pace) Most of my management clients feel torn. When teams collaborate, these managers have no idea how to assess anyone's performance.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Managers can support their teams in many ways. 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. “Mind-meld” with the users.

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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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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. The edition will be helpful for both beginners and seasoned project managers.

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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). Face-palm.).

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. 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.

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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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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

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

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. When I work with managers, I listen for the shorthand: when I hear a lot of “back” language, I can be pretty sure the organization rewards conservators. Are you willing to try?

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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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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? Conflict (C).

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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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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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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Managing change is not the way forward to the future of work. The speed and rapidity of technological innovations means that a change management approach is not fast enough or agile enough for the current and future business realities. So how do we shift from a ‘change manager’ approach to a ‘change leader’ approach?

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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. Designing end-to-end functions as integrators of the business unit/market matrix.

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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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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. ” The Hon Mike Baird MP, Premier of NSW.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Firms are more agile when they encourage employees to think up new approaches and try them out, and then get feedback about how the environment responded to their ideas. Another account manager spent two days in a hospital to understand what it would really mean to become paperless. Adapted from.

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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. What have you got to lose?

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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. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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