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Change Readiness?—?Essential but Oft-Omitted

Harmonious Workplaces

During the month of October, I had the pleasure of learning Organizational Development (OD) and Change Leadership from The Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I found this experience not only enlightening and a delight but also pragmatic and extremely helpful in the way I think about organizational change.

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Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money

Johanna Rothman

Tim, the Engineering VP, was worried he would lose people after their reviews and salary changes. Tim didn't have much time to manage paying people by value at their various levels. Engineering management, including the directors and first-level managers, knew about the salary problem. New Information.

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Making Your Digital Transformation Journey Successful: An Overview of Its Essential Components

Epicflow

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation.

Tools 59
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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

They discovered that one country was 16% percent more efficient than the average of the rest of the countries: they got the same results in 71 fewer person-hours per month and with 40 fewer people involved each month. In bottoms-up cultural transformation initiatives, the how things are done is equally or more important than what is done.

Culture 51
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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

What was their reaction when we, the engineers, said we had to bend the laws of physics to make the project work? My managers canceled the project. Sometimes, they put the project on the parking lot, because maybe the laws of physics would change? Managers Had Many Cancellation Options. Part 1, Serial Lifecycles.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Adapting to change. The reinvention of NASA has been an evolution spanning three phases, each focused on achieving different goals and characterized by particular technology strategies, cultural values, and ways of working with external parties. NASA focused on developing and monitoring precise engineering specifications.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Women in Project Management March, 7, Dublin, Ireland During this annual event, women engaged in project management will have an opportunity to network with their peers, sophisticate their skills, exchange their ideas, share experiences as well as learn from innovators, decision-makers, developers, and more.