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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. What about guidelines? A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. Now, the teams have a reasonable constraint.

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Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions

Johanna Rothman

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. See Leadership Tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead. Instead, can you offer guidelines and constraints so other people can make decisions? This is a part of the series of leadership tips. In my experience, the best people leave.

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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? The more the organization wants or needs an agile transformation, the less the current reward structure works. Cindy wants this agile transformation to succeed. Agile Transformation Requires Management Collaboration.

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Managers: Are You Responsible “To” or “For” People?

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. Because especially agile teams might want to experiment with these practices on a regular basis. Establish guidelines and constraints for the work—if necessary. appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Few organizations have communicated their plan for hybrid work. This is anxiety producing.

Brimstone Consulting

In the absence of certainty in the form of detailed guidelines, policies, expectations, and approaches on what and where working together will look like going forward, employees are feeling anxious. It has forced innovation, forced agility, and enabled accomplishments that previously had been unimaginable. This is anxiety producing.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. As a guideline, I like to review the strategy every 6-12 months. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability.