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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

If you're ready to discover how to talk about what you do in a way that is compelling to your ideal clients, then read on. What I'm NOT going to do is show you how to put sizzle around how to explain your methodology to your client that makes them sign with you on the spot because that is not going to happen.

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How to Leverage Change Friction to Change Behaviors at Work

LSA Global

Enter the concept of how to leverage change friction to change behaviors at work — a notion rooted in behavioral economics and organizational psychology. They can introduce agile methodologies, flatten hierarchies, and foster cross-functional collaboration to break down silos. When things are farther away from us (e.g.,

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Agile Development’s Biggest Failure Point—and How to Fix It

BCG

Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

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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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

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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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.