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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

That was the approach of a national media organization with their January 2nd leading headline story: “If you thought 2022 was bad, wait until you see what 2023 has in store for the economy.” Great leaders build great organizations that quickly adjust to “ black swan events.” They expect the unexpected and swivel to meet it.

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How to Accelerate Team Learning

QAspire

In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. Jack Welch famously said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.”. It all starts from understanding why organizations don’t learn.

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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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2020 Hindsight: Learning for Tomorrow

Lead Change Blog

And through the gyrations of the year, many leaders saw levels of agility, adaptiveness, and creativity in their organizations beyond anything they’d previously imagined. The operating model you’ve had in place for the past 10 years may have been perfect for 2011 but doesn’t work as well as it needs to for 2021. Uncomfortable.

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Applying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives

Curious Cat

As this ability to experiment and improve builds in the organization the speed and volume can be increased quite a bit. That aspect of monitoring changes and taking the time to make sure we did have success and if not what we need to change is a key in getting started. Don’t worry about how much you do at first. Get this process down.

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Beyond Management

Coaching Tip

In " Beyond Management " (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011) author Mark Addleson explains why workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Organizing is an important part of life. Organizing is collective work, which is why knowledge workers participate in networks, establish groups, and form teams.

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Retention and Development of Great Talent

Coaching Tip

The result is that talented people lose motivation and the organization suffers “brain drain” as they look for opportunities elsewhere. . Talented people join and stay in an organization to have an impact – to do work that matters to them and to make a difference. Bad complexity slows an organization down,” says Mr. Kesler.