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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Teams Need to See Each Other—Eventually

Johanna Rothman

” And, the Wall Street Journal has this article, Business Travel Won’t Be Taking Off Soon Amid Coronavirus (you might need to subscribe to see the article). (I See Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops About Geographically Distributed Agile Teams for data from some of my previous workshops.). They (re)build trust.

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How to Create an Exponential Mindset

Harvard Business

That’s how things work in the physical world when we are traveling to a destination. My workshops are designed with an exponential mindset to generate new ways of thinking about marketing, culture and strategy. Grow: Agility and Control. We are accustomed to measuring progress linearly and incrementally.

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