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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed. If senior leadership delegates the project portfolio decisions to middle management, then the middle managers decide. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. You don't have to micromanage.

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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Data adjustment and integration.

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Starting your Consulting Journey as a College Student

Tom Spencer

Firms typically provide consulting clubs with casebooks, containing demo or previous client cases, that students can use to practice for case interviews. Demonstrate Leadership. Consulting firms are highly invested in consulting clubs because they offer an ideal recruitment platform from which they can handpick top talent.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The first was not waiting for the end of an iteration to demo or release. They demo'd every week on Wednesday mornings and then they released after the demo. Aside from the problems that the teams don't finish everything each quarter, the senior leadership likes the regular cadence of planning and seeing accomplishments.

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Leadership May Not Be the Problem with Your Innovation Team

Harvard Business

We expected people to point the finger at leadership (or lack thereof) to explain their organizations’ innovation struggles. While respondents did note some gaps in leadership effectiveness, they were more likely to highlight opportunities for their team members to improve. Fall in love with the problem, not your solution.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. We integrated customer support into our demos, so they understood what their challenges would be when we released. We weren’t perfect.

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

I suggested ways in Leadership Tip #9 about micromanagement.). I like starting with trust and asking if people understand the work; if they need anything; and when I can expect to see a demo or results. If you've never seen micromanagement, you have no idea that you could manage another way. (I