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Different Cultures See Deadlines Differently

Harvard Business

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. At 9:58 AM on the day of the demos, no one had arrived. Western cultures tend to view time as linear , with a definitive beginning and end.

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Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Product Owner?

Johanna Rothman

They more often use flow with various cadences of planning, demos, and retrospectives. I prefer to not make the various names overloaded operators , but that might be me. She is a servant leader for the team. If the team uses Scrum, she might be a Scrum Master. However, her teams rarely use Scrum.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I eventually built up a little demo reel, and I started presenting that to other companies. Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. But that was about it. Awesome, okay. Yeah, definitely.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business

When organizations lack a formal innovation pipeline process, project approvals tend to be based on who has the best demo or slides, or who lobbies the hardest. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.