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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

The more work you ask a candidate to do—at any point in the interview—the more you're asking for free work or consulting. Especially if you want to use agile approaches. You don't need a lot of auditions or tests, and you're definitely not wasting a candidate's time. See Can Auditions Be Too Much of a Good Thing ?)

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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

Ben de Haldevang

The only part I struggled with (but got the point after re-reading it) is the one on “plasticity”, possibly because of the choice of words and the third definition by Merriam-Webster which in first reading seemed a little pedantic. But I landed on my feet shortly afterwards when you mention “agility”, “adaptability” and “responsiveness”!

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Major Challenges Facing the Consulting Industry

QEmploy

Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. It was also said in our client interviews that there are too many brokers out there. The terms, conditions and contract details are taken up during the interview process. This is where agile methodologies come in.

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

Using the area of digitization as an example, organizations can use Flash Organizations to take on complex and data-based projects in a more resilient and agile way. . I recommend conducting an extensive interview that evaluates more than hard skills. Remote work is here to stay. Then make sure your internal employees are integrated.

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31 books on leadership and change

Brimstone Consulting

To get ahead and stay ahead, companies need agile, flexible, innovative leaders who can anticipate change and respond to new realities swiftly. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has become the world’s most definitive source on practical information for building teams. Technologies, products, and economies constantly change.