Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Michael Ray Hopkin Titles are an interesting concept. To me, “product owner&# was just an agile title for the guy who fed requirements into the dev team. 5 Responses Jim Holland , on September 27, 2010 at 9:04 am said: Mike – great post. I’ve always considered myself the latter.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted (2010). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Don’t Treat People How You Want to be Treated (2010).

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QAspire

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Seth Godin’s “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems Seth Godin recently released a free eBook titled “What Matters Now” – it is a collaborative effort of 70 great thinkers who have presented brilliant ideas that will truly shake you up to think deep and wide as we approach 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. One way we solve this at Planbox – An Agile Project Management Tool is through a solid web-based interface that simplifies communication and minimizes data entry. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. The creation of ‘wins’, however, presupposes an incremental process of planning in which tasks or projects are planned for and executed in relatively short periods of time. Debriefing has many benefits. They are numerous and fall into two categories.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. It was in these schools, born of necessity, that the debrief entered military aviation as a deadly serious tool of executional excellence. With Co-Author James ‘Murph’ Murphy, he wrote the 2010 release The Flawless Execution Field Manual.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

In April 2010, Mars, one of the world’s largest privately owned businesses, embarked on a breakthrough initiative. This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI). To become more agile, s tart by rethinking your competitive intelligence process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. See More Videos > See More Videos > As of 2010, Shuttleworth had recognized that BTFG needed to transform its wealth management business. Gaining Support for New Ideas at BTFG. Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In a 2010 study , Psychologist Georges Potworowski at the University of Michigan found that certain personality traits (e.g., They make the decision early on, and move quickly to enlist both sides in executing her decision. Decisive By Nature. In other words, all of us have the potential to be decisive or indecisive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. While he's able to grin about it now, before Agilent spun off from Hewlett Packard in 1999, Barnholt and his colleagues learned from some of the largest failures in HP's history.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. Disclosure: One of us is an executive at Alphabet Inc., Many organizations backed off from moving their data and applications to the cloud. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The argument for the inclusion of the business community went like this: corporations have the combination of skills, resources, motivation, and agility to implement changes on a global scale. In short, our new message for executives is this: Empower policy makers to do their job. But something happened on the way to the parade.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. Launch the team and start executing on the plan. Executive leadership invited everyone to get involved and take full advantage of The Big Opportunity.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Namely, George stresses the importance of: An executive mandate; A creative structure; and. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

On the surface, John looked like the perfect up-and-coming executive to lead BFC’s Asia expansion plans. The Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Learning Agility How does emotional intelligence connect to learning agility? Learning agility, by contrast, has until recently been hard to measure and hard to define.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The result is a fundamental change that has put executive teams and board directors on high alert. It is a simple matter of the big and strong (but often too slow) being unable to manage, or even see, the small and weaker (but fast and agile) threat. In 2010, Gap announced a brand new logo, then retreated after a week.

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Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Execution risk: A wrong execution model or poor execution can make a project run too long and cost too much, leading to a total loss of focus and a reduction in value creation. Small, agile cycles of development and risk assessment help to measure goals, evaluate success and easily change execution strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Patton said it best: “A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” The pursuit of perfection is one of great adversaries of speed, performance, and execution. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Social Chain Social chain is agile and able to evolve according to what’s happening on one of the best marketing platforms today, social media. So, define a plan you can execute well and stick to it. This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years. A deep understanding of ABM in B2B is its super-power.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Data centers are quickly becoming a pressing issue for many executives as companies consider how to keep costs down and environmental impact to a minimum. eBay : The online retailer built its first data center in 2010 (it had previously leased data center space, which is what many in the industry do) in South Jordan, Utah.

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Energy Efficiency Industry Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They do matter, but…they are the entry-level requirements for executive positions. It’s not that IQ and technical skills are irrelevant. My research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

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