Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

One factor at a time (OFAT) Versus Factorial Designs (2011). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). John Hunter, Hurricane Ridge Trail, Olympic National Park. The Aim Should be the Best Life – Not Work v. Life Balance (2015). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010).

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, and a never say die attitude that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 15, 2012

In " Beyond Management " (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011) author Mark Addleson explains why workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Even when everyone is doing it with the best of intentions, organizing can be a tricky process, requiring persistence and agility.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). In the next 10 most popular posts 5 were from 2014 (2010 had 2 and 2008, 2009 and 2011 had 1 each). Here is a list of the 10 most popular posts on this blog last year (as measured by views counted by my analytics applications). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010).

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Companies worry about losing talent – Google is losing talent to Facebook as it becomes bigger, slower and less agile.”. . Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Lisa Haneberg emphasizes on Agility as an important leadership skill – Agility for leaders is an important skill to focus on in 2010. Steve Roesler gives us three simple and powerful ideas to manage conflicts. Michael Wade writes about successful strategies for fighting fear. Quite an interesting read.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2010

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. Let’s face, I think communication is a major part of ANY sound (and successful) project management team! Try it out! Alex Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. Be an Agile Learner: Rapidly changing context is like a treadmill that compels leaders to learn constantly in a self-directed mode. In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others.

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Chris Brady

JULY 11, 2010

The best leaders are the most agile, the most able to adjust and course-correct, the most rock-solid on commitment to a vision but the most flexible on the route. thanks Posted by: Golf Tips For Beginners | January 28, 2011 at 04:41 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. Change can be a great learning experience if we know when and how to align ourselves (and our mindsets). You should know what "not do to" when implementing change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth. The risk had been managed well.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

link] Elllen Weber Wow – Mike, thanks for the way you weave the parts together with such agility. I am in complete concurrence that the sooner a person becomes a better decision maker, the sooner they'll see more things work for them as opposed to against them. Great insights Susan.

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Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

  We must first begin, by valuing our unique feminine gifts such as our verbal agility, our ability to give care and compassion, our natural gift to see and perceive the whole of a situation, work environment or even the whole needs of the world.   I think that’s great, but I think there’s more to life for women than just success.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We need this kind of leadership from top to bottom on in our enterprises: on each team, in each role, at every level; whether organized around project or products, agile scrum or lean start-up; whether teams are fully co-located or spread out globally; whether focused on apps, apis, or IoT. About the Author. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. In 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500 had an average stay of 61 years. By 1980, numbers from research firm Innosight reveal that the average stay had declined sharply to 25 years.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Best Leadership Books of 2011. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Mindful that many large transformation programs run into difficulties because of scope complexity and traditional “ waterfall ” software development, Shuttleworth and the team used a design-led approach combined with scaled agile delivery. The team sketched out user stories to frame the work (see below for an example).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. And for many people they're harder to learn. To some extent, they come only from experience. In a knowledge economy, the shift is inevitable; you need to keep up with it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4% Audi now sells more luxury cars than any other manufacturer in China. A decade ago, there was no market at all for low-cost electric bikes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. The rapid increase in data about real-time conditions in supply chains will enable more agility. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development. Gerald Lord/Getty Images. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. Our relocation to China stretched our thinking. As a new crossroads of global travel, Dubai will soon be home to the world's busiest international airport.

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Hotels Globalization Travel Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. In a world of higher existential risk, agility of mind, flexibility in organization and redundancy in capacity will be critical factors in mastering the kind of complex risks and opportunities we increasingly face.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Joel Garfinkle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. Though $15,000 seems like a lot to a high school senior, it’s hardly a great choice for entrepreneurs or anyone else if it comes at the expense of an education that yields a far higher lifetime income , a more agile mind, and a more rewarding life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We recently attended the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit 2011 in Mumbai, where we moderated several panels and workshops on the topic of innovation. The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

But by 2011, female soldiers who had undergone a selection process that involved a grueling weeklong ordeal known as “100 Hours of Hell” followed by six weeks of training, were joining Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and other elite units on combat operations each night. In other words, they were already used to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011. Sodexo created its Global Agility program, which includes a series of initiatives and training modules that are designed to promote cross-cultural competence and connect business units and leaders in its 32,700 sites worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

In 2011, with 605 new Wipro employees across three different operations centers as our participants, we conducted a field experiment testing whether an authentic approach would lead to greater performance and retention than the traditional entry approach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

” For example, one of Berlin’s clients, a Fortune 25 company, has integrated mindfulness techniques into its high potentials program with the goal of creating agile and flexible mindsets as a foundation for leadership. ” The same goes for his relationships with his colleagues and staff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. As we have seen in other industries, to make the most of the new opportunities that lie ahead, oil companies will increasingly need to morph into agile organizations that can pivot to offset and even capitalize on disruptive new shifts. The soaring U.S.

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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. Eoin Whelan, Marian Carcary, (2011) “Integrating talent and knowledge management: where are the benefits?”,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization? The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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