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142: That’s Not How We Do It Here! — How to Stay Agile and Innovative as a Mature Company | with John Kotter

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Most mature organizations have a built-in tendency to kill off anything agile, innovative, and entrepreneurial — which often is exactly what’s needed to stay ahead of today’s ever-increasing pace of change in the […]

Maturity 100
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126: Holacracy – An Agile Management System for a Rapidly Changing World | with Brian Robertson

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According to HolacracyOne, the key components of Holacracy are: Flexible organizational structure with clear roles and accountabilities New meeting format geared toward action and eliminating over-analysis More autonomy to teams and individuals to solve issues themselves and cut through bureaucracy Unique decision-making process to continuously evolve (..)

Agility 100
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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

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It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development. 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.

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094: Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation | with Greg Brandeau

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Together, Greg and Jesse discuss key concept from the book, such as: Willingness / Motivation to Innovate Community (shared purpose) Values and rules/norms of engagement (culture) Ability to Innovate Creative Abrasion Creative Agility Creative Resolution Innovation ecosystem: Finding tomorrow’s leaders of innovation Resources Mentioned in This Episode (..)

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069: 9 Telltale Signs of Influence 3.0

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As a result, the leaders who are producing the best business results are now those high in Interactive leadership. Is your leadership as effective as it can be?

Influence 113
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119: Goals Gone Wild: The New Performance Management | with Kris Duggan of BetterWorks

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The younger, more mobile, more agile workforce and workplace we now live in demands new approaches. Performance management is not something that high-impact organizations ‘do,’ but is instead a way that work gets done.” Overall the big trend is this: almost everything we’ve done traditionally in HR has to be adjusted (or re-engineered).

Goal 100
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9 Telltale Signs of an Engaging Leader

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Is agile and flexible. As a result, the leaders who are producing the best business results are now those high in Interactive leadership. Today, a great leader … Is empathetic, authentic, self-disclosing. Is collaborative, including co-creating a shared purpose with the team (rather than casting a vision for the team).

Workshop 240