Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When a large automotive company shifted its organization model from a product center-of-gravity to a customer-centric model, its leaders initially believed the matrixed tensions were unnecessary complexity and associated tension with “failure.” Alternatively, the large automotive company previously referenced needed a different construct.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility.

Leadership 52

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. Having constructive debate in a safe environment. The People Team faced a few complications: The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) Part 2 was why we need managers. This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. ” Product quality stunk. Sort of like construction projects.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

What we need to do is learn to develop emotional agility , the capacity to mine even the most difficult emotions for data that can help us make better decisions. Author’s note: I offer an assessment on my website to help you gauge your emotional agility. What’s the function of the emotion? Mark Chussil.

Emotional Intelligence 28

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2021

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. I suspected I would learn about engagement with my next questions about management patterns. Let's start with how management organizes teams. Does each team focus on just one product at a time? Why do you have deadlines?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

How can you make the meetings more productive and collaborative? What do you need to change as the manager and what do you need to ask your direct report to do differently as well? “One-on-ones are one of the most important productivity tools you have as a manager,” she says. What the Experts Say.

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Productivity How To Meeting Case Study 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. Yes, cancel.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. Boston: Removing Roadblocks.

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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? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The insurance industry has not been immune to AI’s advancement – whether implementing robo-advisors for investment management (Vanguard and Charles Schwab) or applying AI to insurance and loan underwriting (the Chinese search giant Baidu, which provides enhanced risk assessment capabilities). Assess readiness. Start small.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s your job as a manager to make work meaningful for the members of your team. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Suparat Malipoom/EyeEm/Getty Images. But what about the freelancers with whom you work? Check in and offer feedback.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

We design products, experiences, and even business models. To design our thinking, we have to become adept at working with mental models and managing thinking styles. Just as you construct an investment portfolio differently for different investment objectives, you want construct your thinking portfolio.

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Construction Agile Examples Efficiency 44

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change.

Apparel 30

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 30

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. Teams deliver features, Support delivers fixes/workarounds, and managers deliver decisions.).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. Is there a conversation we should have that might lead to a more constructive outcome?” ” So, be helpful , she advises. ” Take breaks from certain colleagues.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence. Leaders should not be too quick or simplistic in their translation of social movement dynamics into change management plans. Frame the issue.

Culture 53

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Both internal and external factors drive uncertainty about the duration and outcome of the reconstruction challenge — for example, the UK’s ability to negotiate agreements, having outsourced this task to Brussels for 40 years, or trade partners’ willingness to engage with Britain in a constructively and timely manner.

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Industry Financial Strategy Strategy 30

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

How talent management is changing. As Nayak discovered, driving value by unleashing ideas, spurring collaboration, and solving problems across distance and difference requires shifting management methods from command-and-control to behaving inclusively. ” Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Emotional Intelligence 28

Emotional Intelligence Talent Culture Leadership 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Yes, that’s right — an entirely new approach to managing vacation. After this experiment was in place for 12 weeks, we had managers rate employee productivity, creativity, and happiness levels before and after the mandatory time off. (We And for productivity, the average employee score was 3.2 after time off.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

Some companies will rise to the challenge and manage the transition by building new businesses and reinventing themselves, and others will go out of business. Then an investment manager can say, I have to choose between Company A or Company B, which one has a higher environmental risk over the next five years?

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Financial Metrics Data Industry 52

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. The Anchor Layer Construct at PepsiCo Can Remove Layers of Infrastructure and P&L Complexity. #3:

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In fact, when Garry Ridge took over, WD-40’s flagship offering was used in four of five American households and in virtually every mine, factory, and construction site in the country. The new CEO quickly realized the product’s ubiquity was both a blessing and a curse. Yet the company was also a one-trick pony.

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Culture Company Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. In 1993 NASA was directed by the White House to collaborate with other nations on the design and construction of the International Space Station.

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Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team. They generated more revenue for the company and were rated as “effective” twice as often by executives. Leaders set the tone.

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Training Training Study Film 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Imagine a company that makes ice cream and sells its products to companies all over the world. A blockchain-powered solution would capture information about the product from participants across the supply chain and from different perspectives. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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