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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. What culture do you want?

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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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Traits of an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement

LSA Global

Why an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement Matters Findings from our organizational culture assessment tell us that most employees feel like their companies are in a constant state of organizational flux driven by the accelerating pace of organizational change and never-ending industry disruption.

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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. We might see many changes in behavior, such as self-directed or self-organizing teams.

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Save the silver bullet – a shameless piece of self promotion!

Ben de Haldevang

It very clearly makes the point that there is no silver bullet but equally sets the record straight for the ill-informed people who maintain that “every integration or transformation is different so why plan ahead or follow any form of framework or guidelines”. A cracking read, well done!!”

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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.