Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. And, it turns out, agile talent in stages 3 and 4 is often eager to provide coaching and mentorship to junior professionals working with them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise. Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The willingness to experiment has to permeate the whole organization.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

How you proceed will depend on whether the disagreements are related to misaligned strategy, culture, or talent assumptions, and if the conflict is within an established hierarchy of power or among peers. If you are among peers, exercise some self-analysis. The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

Collaborative Agility Efficiently solve complex problems and exercise good judgement to increase the quality of decision making and ideas through active inclusion of diverse perspectives, healthy debate, and data informed innovation. Job Relevance. Satisfaction. 117% Knowledge Gain. 90% Net Promoter Score.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Here are some tips, based on some of the latest neuroscience, behavioral and organizational research: Exercise mindfulness. Develop mental agility. This quality of mental agility hinges on the ability to mentally “decenter” stressors in order to effectively manage them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. This is especially troublesome given that the need for innovation and agile adaptation has never been greater. Most team leaders try to build cohesion on their teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. Eating well and getting plenty of exercise and sleep are critical to keeping stress at bay. “But I do exercise a lot.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

How talent management is changing. Throw out pre-planned teaching schedules, content, lectures, and exercises that ask you to think about your world and how you need to lead it. However, the CEO did know that all he could do in such a dynamic context was build new capacities for agility and change in his organization.

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