Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2022

Understanding the rapidly changing business environment will be essential to ensure efficient and effective leadership going forwards. COVID-19 has revealed that systems we thought had reached a point of relative stability can suddenly become volatile and unpredictable. Change 1: From engaging to inspiring. The bottom line.

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 23, 2023

Servant Leadership is an unstoppable force for positive change that can transform toxic workplaces. Current leadership approaches fail to realize employee potential and the connection to business success. Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye.

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 23, 2023

Servant Leadership is an unstoppable force for positive change that can transform toxic workplaces. Current leadership approaches fail to realize employee potential and the connection to business success. Unfortunately, leadership–business owners and executives–tend to look at a toxic culture with a blind eye.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lee is not just a great leader; he also turned his leadership success into a highly profitable leadership and management training business, so he's got some best practices on how he stands out in the market and wins clients. Why you need to create a system to be a person of your word.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Work on the system, not the work itself. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips. Can Your Team Change Its Board?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, 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). I'm the only one who can and does keep up with product context (or whatever context you have).

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. From our unique position looking across the whole thought leadership landscape, we believe there are some key trends that will help to shape 2021. Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. A more collaborative approach.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 28, 2023

That’s where leadership development programs come in. Through courses, coaching sessions, and training modules, they can improve their leadership skills and become the manager they need to be for their business. Why is Leadership Development Important? However, knowing where to begin can feel overwhelming.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Those people suffered from several problems—most of which was based on the system of rewards in the organization (part of the context): Because of their power, they were “on the hook” to deliver something we could not deliver. Mostly because of their positional power and the reward system.). I would have disagreed.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

A lot of businesses are experiencing a leadership shortage. CEOs need a strong leadership pipeline to thrive, but it's not easy to build. In fact, perceptions of leadership effectiveness and readiness often differ between executives and the frontline. Leadership development investments don't have to be a big gamble.

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Harmonious Workplaces

JANUARY 25, 2024

Strong manager-employee relationships through great leadership leads to positive outcomes After hearing so many people talking about the Apple TV show Ted Lasso and using it in the context of business leadership, I had to see what caused all the buzz. The show has captured my attention and a little of my heart.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I’m tired of hearing about how much business and leadership is going to change in the “World 2.0.” The changes business leaders face today are not as cataclysmic as the move from the barter system to capitalism, the invention of the microprocessor, or the rise of globalization. Bah humbug!

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 11, 2020

If you experience lousy service or poor quality, it’s probably not solely the fault of the person who talked to you on the phone, dealt with you at the counter or assembled your product. The boss didn’t design the system properly, didn’t align incentives, didn’t invest in training. It’s the boss.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. Component teams are a system problem. If your product integrates other people's modules, your product architecture is even more complex.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. It’s with the simple synching of front line workers with the leadership. No, the problem was with the internal clock.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 19, 2024

Change management services help these organizations navigate large-scale changes effectively by: Aligning leadership and stakeholders to drive change initiatives. Ensuring smooth transitions and maintaining productivity during transformations. Faster time-to-market for new products or services.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. There might be more systems I don’t see yet. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

People who facilitate larger efforts, such as product leaders, portfolio managers, and most middle managers, feel the pressure to “deliver” or “perform.” That's because the organization creates its system. And Paul Batalden said: “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. How can you see your system and your culture? See Your Organization as a System.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Moving to a product-based organization means we change the way we view and reward managers. If you measure based on only the date, you release potentially-horrible product.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 24, 2024

They review workflows, supply chain logistics, and production processes to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement. Implementing their recommendations can lead to reduced costs, faster production times, and better product quality, all of which are vital for competitive advantage.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

What I think might be bordering on unethical is how organizations have shifted from employee satisfaction to employee engagement and how engagement goals might completely jack up our limbic systems. And when attachment is sought it has a profound impact on an employee’s limbic system. Let me explain.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. As they worked over the next six months (yes, this was not fast), some of the managers asked to become product owners and product managers.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Other salespeople follow this pattern of behavior, and the company’s integrated systems cannot update information in real-time, meaning people do not receive the right message at the right moment to make important sales and marketing decisions. They may also miss key data points to drive productive ideas.

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Shift the blame from the person’s performance to the system, the process, the team, the vendor, the client, or any other handy scapegoat. However, what it all boils down to is a lack of leadership courage: leaders are often scared to death to have the tough conversation.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Leadership and Management Development Matters According to recent research by McKinsey and the Corporate Executive Board, more than 500 executives ranked leadership development among the top three human capital priorities, and two thirds of leaders rated developing effective leaders as their top concern.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When clients choose fast band-aids, it hurts their leadership brand and reputation. The Surrogate Leadership Trap. The surrogate leadership trap is when you tell a client what they should do and set up your client to your direct report. In turn, they often, Invest in potentially expensive band-aids.

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Peter Stark

APRIL 14, 2019

In our Employee Opinion Surveys , one question we see low more often these days has to do with the systems and processes in the organization supporting employee’s ability to do their job effectively. When system and processes are not working right, it can be frustrating for employees and takes them longer to do their job.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The late Elliott Jaques (1989) 2 created a useful framework for designing leadership work in large organizations.?One His belief was that the top leadership level of the company should have a decision horizon in years. We use the Star Model to ensure our problem identification is holistic and takes a systems view.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. You may be asking, isn’t it the role of a Chief Product Officer to create solutions across products? Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products.

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