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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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The Heart of a Warrior

N2Growth Blog

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. 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. I Think Not.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

Coaching Tip

Companies worry about losing talent – Google is losing talent to Facebook as it becomes bigger, slower and less agile.”. . Top-level leaders create the matrix, but the burden of living in it falls on middle management. They provide training that specifically addresses how to manage and function effectively in their matrix.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. 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.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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Seth Godin's “What Matters Now” and a Few More Gems

QAspire

A Few More Gems Rajesh Setty is known for executing innovative concepts that educate, add value and inspire. Steve Roesler gives us three simple and powerful ideas to manage conflicts. Lisa Haneberg emphasizes on Agility as an important leadership skill – Agility for leaders is an important skill to focus on in 2010.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business Review

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.