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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures.

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Servant Leadership Coaching Your Superpower

Rick Conlow

Servant Leadership coaching your superpower means you elevate people-first. Our partnership with them included servant leadership training. This involved over 200 locations and six layers of management. Servant leadership coaching became their superpower. It is hard work to be a Servant Leader.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

I keep seeing managers confuse the strategic and tactical. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. Business agility requires change.

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Leadership Tip 14: Reduce Other People’s Dependence on Your Decisions

Johanna Rothman

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product).

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation? Cindy, a director in a 500-person IT organization struggles with this—for herself and for the managers she leads and serves.