Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. In their experience, this works well to manage the “meh” work. Yes, it might start with no coffee or the video tool doesn't work. Sometimes, a colleague or manager created more work for someone.

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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. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. 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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. That’s how it is with practices that don’t quite fit another cultural context. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. Every week.

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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. I read Fast Cycle Time when I program-managed for a client. Why a Manifesto?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. This innovation in innovation requires moving from predictive plans (based on increasingly unpredictable market conditions) to adaptive, agile innovation teams.

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Cheryl Cran

AUGUST 21, 2016

Organizations are faced with managing change at a faster rate than ever before and the fast pace of change requires agile and future ready leaders. Leadership development programs need to be a combination of online, video, case studies and coaching.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. Bring creativity to measurement. Think like a startup.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

The music and video industries, for example, weren’t redefined by converting analog to digital formats. They manage their uncertainty, take the leap, and start the journey despite being unable to see around the bend. Grow: Agility and Control. The incremental mindset about management is like creating a line of dominos.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. In traditional hierarchical organizations, managers direct the work of subordinates and thereby ensure alignment with broader organizational goals. This task is closely related to the other two.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Having been on both sides of several successful — and failed — acqui-hire transactions, certain critical success criteria and warning signs stand out: Don’t acquire talent to solve a problem or manage a pain point. How will the firm manage frustration borne of ambition? No wonder their new teams often feel betrayed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

We’re also seeing that the leaders are more likely to manage marketing technology within the marketing organization. ” or “Who actually watched the video fully?” Our research shows that the leading marketers place greater priority on tech integrations, and they are more advanced users of their technology.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Teams were told that an expert from the United States would be watching them remotely (with video) and would occasionally comment and advise them. In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. The post image is my chasm image from Manage It! and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture.

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