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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Crafting a Strong Strategic Direction: A Blueprint for Success

LSA Global

You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success. Strong strategic alignment creates constructive collaboration for a company to perform at its peak.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 3: What Is The Recipe, The Right Answer?

Johanna Rothman

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. This part is about how people want a recipe, The Answer, for how to get better at “Agile.” ” Before we can address what an answer might be, your need to know your why for an agile approach. Can “Agile” deliver on that?

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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility. People are resourceful— not resources.

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1 Leadership Assessment Tool You Need to Try

Organizational Talent Consulting

However, a stark reality is that employees receive significantly less constructive feedback the higher they move up in an organization. A company-wide or team view of 360-degree feedback provides talent management insights into organizational performance and culture. Human Resource Management, 42(3), 243-256. Perreault, D.,

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Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned

LSA Global

3 Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned As leadership teams navigate through inevitable challenges and opportunities, maintaining alignment becomes paramount to achieving collective goals and sustaining a high performance culture. marketplace, strategy, structure, culture, talent, processes, technology, leadership, mindsets, etc.),

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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.