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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Note: This is a terrible interview question because it's hypothetical. Agility requires a collaborative cross-functional team. They don't know.

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility. Successful, culturally agile leaders can see themself through another person's perspective.

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How Scrum Masters Use Facilitative Leadership Especially When Planning, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. The interview question I started with.)

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

Consulting Matters

Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage.

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Listen to Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Gil Broza

Johanna Rothman

Ryan Ripley, host of Agile for Humans, interviewed Gil Broza and me in AFH 102: The Influential Agile Leader. We spoke about the workshop I lead with Gil, the Influential Agile Leader. If you are interested in helping your agile transformation, do listen to the podcast and join us for the conversation.

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31 books on leadership and change

Brimstone Consulting

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

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