Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I’m catching up on my podcasts and just listened to Seth Godin’s Akimbo episode about honest signals. (Do listen.) It’s about the signals we send that are honest or dishonest and why we might choose one, the other, or both. I started to think about the management signals we send, especially in an agile transformation. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I developed this chart to show how agile approaches change the culture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

pchyburrs/Getty Images. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. “Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work of others.” Today, we believe that the problem in most organizations isn’t simply that management is inefficient, it’s that the role and purpose of a “manager” haven’t kept pace with what’

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It’s worth picking a philosophy that’s self correcting. The antidote to junk science is more science, good science. Science is a self-correcting process, where transparency leads to improvement. The antidote to bad engineering is more engineering. Engines and bridges run better today than they did a hundred years ago. The antidote to blind obedience to unexamined edicts and principles, though, is not more obedience.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. For some of your team members, the idea of using data to inform decision-making can feel intimidating. Maybe they don’t consider themselves to have strong analytical skills. Maybe they felt overwhelmed by their statistics course in college. Maybe they like to “go with their gut,” or simply dread the idea of wading through a ton of data.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Nick Veasey/Getty Images. A study of surgical patients , across 168 hospitals, showed that 23% of patients experience a major complication during their stay. We like to think of complications as atypical events. However, the unfortunate truth is that they are quite common. While most medical complications are easily identified and are treated in a timely manner, not all are recognized soon enough.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images. It has been well documented that immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship. This is true both in the United States, where they represent 27.5% of all entrepreneurs but only 13% of the population , and in many other countries around the world. On average, immigrants contribute twice as much to U.S. entrepreneurship as native-born citizens do.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Westend61/Getty Images. Many companies have jumped on the “big data” bandwagon. They’re hiring data scientists, mining employee and customer data for insights, and creating algorithms to optimize their recommendations. Yet, these same companies often assume that customers are wary of their algorithms — and they go to great lengths to hide or humanize them.

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