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Moving Your Agenda

Leading Blog

Samuel Bacharach writes in The Agenda Mover , that leadership is “about your capacity to take your ideas and work them through the maze of resistance, overcome challenges, and put those ideas in place. Traditionalists can anticipate that a Revolutionary will resist their approach and agenda. Sustain Your Campaign.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

Designing broad involvement into the strategy development and execution process will rapidly increase the quality of your strategy, build broad ownership and commitment, reduce resistance, mitigate execution risks and accelerate results. Any resistance to change would simply be overcome with rules, policies and managers to force compliance.

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How to Leverage Organizational Silos to Implement Change

Change Starts Here

Getting divisive groups to cooperate to implement change is a challenge. For example, manufacturing operations groups often insist on long production runs to reduce downtime and scrap, while supply chain groups strive to reduce inventory and increase agility by scheduling short production runs. Uncover Resistance.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

Lower ratings on Learning Agility indicate that many of the STEMM leaders don’t ask for or listen to feedback and resist making personal changes. ” Their cutting wit or biting sarcasm can show an arrogant, superior attitude that arouses resentment and kills cooperation.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

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. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Rational capacity – ability to set aside emotional agendas.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Many software developers at GE were concerned about reliability and security, which led some of them to resist moving some of the capabilities to the “cloud.” To overcome the resistance, Ruh and his team started by working with those businesses within GE that could change quickly.

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High Impact Thinking for #Management - Updated for 2012

Management Craft

Managers need the support and cooperation of those they work with. When you show your teams what agility looks like in action, you are showing them how to work and thrive in today’s times. Agility is a mindset, and it is a set of practices, a way of working that can be both strong and nimble. Management is a social act.