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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

(Schein goes into more detail and if you're interested in management, I encourage you to read his work.). The more management wants to standardize on any agile approach, or add control or synchronization points, or require another group/team to deploy, the more management creates local optimization. That's wrong.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.