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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

The January 2011 issue of my newsletter featured a selection of hilariously inaccurate predictions about 1993 made in 1893, a few funny failed predictions from the 1400s to 2000s, and a short list of insanely wrong comments (e.g. Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team.

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Applying Toyota Kata to Agile Retrospectives

Curious Cat

A Kata as different from a routine in that it contains a continuous self-renewal process. By taking care to evaluate what is working and what isn’t we create a process in which we don’t allow ad hoc and unsuccessful changes to demoralize everyone. Get this process down. Make it a habit.

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

Engaging Leader

Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem. 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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Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

QAspire

Agility is the key to good planning. This helps you remain agile. Whenever possible, involve people in planning process. In a way, these lessons also map with the fundamentals of agile planning. In my view, Agile is not just a software development methodology, agility is also a mindset.

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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. 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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15 Key Lessons On Managing Change

QAspire

Based on my experience in implementing organizational change through processes and people, here are a few key lessons I have derived: Change is difficult because it pulls us out of our comfort. Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages.