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Pushing for Change

Chad Barr

This event was to push forward for funding to build crisis and diversion centers. Also featured in the Cleveland Jewish News: Cantor Laurel Barr: ‘Incarceration has not helped my son’ The post Pushing for Change appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. It took courage for my wife to stand up and share our story.

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How to Push for Policy Changes at Your Company

Harvard Business

The people and planning you’ll need to set yourselves up for success.

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Lessons from Beyoncé on Navigating Exclusion

Harvard Business

Then, work behind the scenes, ideally with collaborators, to push for change. Her actions over the past eight years have been a case study in how to navigate workplace exclusion. As a first step, it often makes sense to exit the conversation and wait for a better moment to respond.

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How to use Timeboxes instead of Batch Planning: Visible Progress or Focus to Finish

Johanna Rothman

However, planning for a batch of work is push -planning. When teams push work into an iteration, they often plan too much, especially if they use relative estimation. Instead of push-planning, I now recommend pulling work instead. The iteration is a timebox. That doesn't help anyone finish. I never plan fiction.

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Why Goldman Sachs’s Push for Diversity Is Unlikely to Drive Real Change

Harvard Business

The bank announced it will only take public companies with at least one female or non-white board member.

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How Project Managers Can Say No — While Preserving Relationships

Harvard Business

This often means saying “no” when stakeholders request additional features or changes. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

All jobs evolve and change as any industry changes. Review the Hype Cycle and the Satir Change Model Do you know about the Gartner hype cycle ? it looks remarkably like the Satir Change Model. Every change requires work. We can't get something for nothing, and agility requires that managers change the culture.

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