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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

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? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Six things the smartest consulting firms will be thinking about in 2019

The Source

Growing East : When we crunch all the data for 2018, we expect to find that demand for consulting services has been patchy. Underlying willingness to use consultants is strong, but that won’t stop clients looking constantly over their shoulder out of fear of a potential downturn. Agility: In a skittish market, it pays to think ahead.

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Explore Trust, Healthy Teams and More with Robby Russell on the Maintainable Podcast

Johanna Rothman

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time.). The issue of “too many meetings” and why they might need to be called something else. I ranted about how people use Slack.

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The Safe Space #3 – getting focused

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. The =mc consultants offer advice on a difficult scenario that you may well identify with: getting focussed during a pandemic. I am a project manager and we have an agile-working structure.

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Five Tips for Your Successful (Hybrid Remote) Satellite Team

Johanna Rothman

When Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, we saw these satellite team traps: People in the office forgot about the people not in the office. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time to discuss the purpose of this meeting.). On Friday, the team is a nebula team.

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Quick Feedback: A Small Gesture with An Outsized Impact

Kates Kesler

As companies and strategies become more complex, leaders often need to start collaborating and integrating more to achieve the benefits of both agility and scale. As consultants, we also have to display self-awareness, vulnerability, and resilience if we are to help our clients take on these new and difficult conversations.

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How to handle change positively

Halo Psych

The outermost circle, the Circle of Concern, is where we should spend the least of our time and energy. You can subscribe here -> SUBSCRIBE If you liked this post, you might also like these: Could consultation be an antidote to the stress of organisational change? (4-minute

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