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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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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. Or, the person must adhere to onerous policies, especially for travel, to get reimbursed. What culture do you want?

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Teams Need to See Each Other—Eventually

Johanna Rothman

” And, the Wall Street Journal has this article, Business Travel Won’t Be Taking Off Soon Amid Coronavirus (you might need to subscribe to see the article). (I See Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops About Geographically Distributed Agile Teams for data from some of my previous workshops.). Work from home, as long as you want.”

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable change, such as M&A, and executive leaders increasingly work with and lead multicultural teams. Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility.

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Ten Attributes of High Performing Leaders

Claris Consulting

Their curiosity has them traveling to diverse places, reading broadly and being intellectually engaged both at work and at home. They are continuously thinking bigger about their own personal leadership as well as their role in creating a culture of continuous learning, experimentation and risk taking.

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Why Travel and Living Abroad Prepare You for Consulting

Tom Spencer

Have you ever felt guilty about travelling extensively? Have you ever wished that the money spent traveling could somehow pay dividends? Well, I believe it can pay dividends, so you shouldn’t feel guilty about your past and future travel. But travelling also nurtures and requires key traits that are present in a good consultant.

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