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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

I started asking if you actually need an agile approach in Part 1 and noted the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers in an agile transformation. Part 4 was about how “Agile” is meaningless and “agile” is an adjective that needs to be applied to something. That would be resilient.

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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

That's because I have an overarching guideline for partnering with other people: I don't do business with jerks. So the people in the learning/process improvement/agile center of excellence ask me for a free talk. You might have other considerations, such as how much marketing reach the other person/organization has.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Where does it make sense to duplicate work in order to drive differentiation and agility? Instead, take an enterprise lens that enables high-level tradeoffs between agility and leverage to drive real transformation. Where can resources be leveraged across business units, segments, or geographies to drive savings? Tom Falkowski.

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When Writing Has Two Focuses: Invite Ideal Readers to Change and Assure Secondary Readers

Johanna Rothman

Now that we are close, Sales, Training, Marketing all need much more detail and information about how to use Nova and when they can expect it. Therefore, please use the attached guidelines for reporting status weekly. Thank you so much for your efforts to date. As a company, we need more demos and more data. Was Polly a little snarky?

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Traits of an Organizational Structure Designed to Promote Employee Engagement

LSA Global

The most powerful cultures combine steady cultural and organizational design elements with agile elements that change in response to evolving market and employee needs. High performance cultures make it easy and beneficial to execute the company’s people and business strategies.

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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business

Data-Driven Marketing. As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. .” Insight Center. Sponsored by Google. The science of storytelling and brand performance.

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Faster Management Decisions Can Lead to More Ease and Better Results, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. Market, product, culture, it doesn't matter what changes, the more frequently we plan to replan, the more we allow ourselves to notice changes.).