Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2020

The processes don't have sufficient agility to deliver the necessary results. Yet, people who want to use agile approaches don't want to apply agile thinking to their processes. Some clients want to create their custom agile process— and then standardize it across the organization. My Processes and My Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

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. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?”

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. For example, I deliver my blog posts. In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

For example, I'm short. See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. Help is a form of support.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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LSA Global

JULY 8, 2023

Maybe It’s Time to Improve Leadership Mindsets at Work. Ineffective executive teams tend to operate in silos , micromanage their teams , or make misaligned leadership decisions. Leadership Mindsets versus Leadership Skills Can’t top tier leaders just focus on improving certain leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. This image is an example where a 6-person team primarily affiliates with the manager/leader, and no with each other. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work?

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, one of my clients is a dating coach for accomplished, high-achieving women and through her surveys, interviews and amazon book reviews was the prevalence of fear and discouragement that these women experienced around the dating process and even finding love from someone who valued her strength. Interesting and memorable phrases.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control. The people doing the work want less control and more servant leadership. Sometimes, agile teams are supposed to produce Gantt charts.).

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Take the example of V12. The strategy is not aligned with the goal. Lack of ownership and accountability.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 27, 2021

They made these difficult decisions, such as <and offer an example.> This is a part of the series of leadership tips. The post Leadership Tip #6: Give Credit as Often as Possible appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Now, senior management acknowledges you. What do you do? You say, “Thanks.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Essential reads on leadership and change for your library. The following list of 31 books on leadership and change is comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders. 31 books on leadership and change. Daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100% teachable.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. But that, in itself, is an example of seeing what you want to see. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success. Our employees?”

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. I like to see the questions reflect the why for your organization’s agile transformation. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). “What should I measure???” What do we want less of?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For example, distance can be a friction which impacts behavior. Other examples of friction are time and effort. Examples include altering default options, providing timely feedback, and fostering team norms conducive to change. Friction makes a behavior less likely and impacts our decisions.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The board, leadership team, employees, shareholders – they all are at once excited and anxious about the impact a new leader will have on the organization, the bottom line, and what the change in leadership means for them as individuals. Let’s take the example of a new leader at a global manufacturing company.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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? Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. But that, in itself, is an example of seeing what you want to see. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success. Our employees?”

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. Soft skills A CPO requires similar skills as a project manager but with a strong focus on leadership and strategic thinking.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For example, if there was a power outage, the app could automatically inform a technician and send them a map of the fastest route to get to the relevant location. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). Here are some examples: If you're a startup, probably once every week or two, as you learn what your users want and what you want to offer.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

This leadership style often stems from believing that the leader knows best and the stakes are high. Here is a humorous example of micro-management from the movie Office Space. This style of leadership is described as laissez-faire. Strategy & Leadership, 48(6), 27-33. Micro-management is a hard habit to break.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. The global/local tension.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. Leadership presence is therefore an “and/both” versus an “either/or.”

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. According to recent McKinsey research, successful agile transformations deliver almost 30% improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and operational performance.

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