Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 19, 2014

Diane is six months into her assignment as a mid-level manager in a large technology company. She was promoted to this position because of her previous “wild success” as a first line manager, where she managed a team of engineers. She will either find a way to become successful or she’ll fail.

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Delegation Executive Coaching Wilde Learning-by-Doing 241

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. Companies will have to become more agile, automated, and data-driven in order to survive. Control of work will optimize management systems and help organizations overcome operational hiccups.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. As you scale you will need leaders everywhere who are agile and adaptable.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is the leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. James has over [.].

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Taylorism Taylor Agility Technology 75

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Whether the worlds scariest outbreak of Ebola can be managed may come down to communications. Can governments, NGOs, and doctors communicate with very different audiences  with accuracy, agility, and ingenuity? Traditional sources of food  wild animals  also carry the virus. Communication Crisis management Health'

Power 9

Power Management Storytelling Crisis Management 9

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the VUCA world in which we now operate many businesses have become more agile, networked and team centric in order to respond to the challenges of more competition and digital disruption. However, up to now many of these approaches have been implemented in functional areas like sales and operations, and the C-suite has been left unchanged.

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Chief Information Officer Team Human Capital Survey 186

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s your job as a manager to make work meaningful for the members of your team. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Seeing your work in the wild and powering a business, which is of course a group of people, is very rewarding.”

Waldroop 8

Waldroop Agility Advertising Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Whatever approach you choose, you need to create appropriate levels of digital technology synergy, brand integration, investment coordination, skill development, vendor management, and innovation over the long term. Are IT costs and agility what you want them to be? They know the intricacies of managing across organizational units.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Yes, that’s right — an entirely new approach to managing vacation. After this experiment was in place for 12 weeks, we had managers rate employee productivity, creativity, and happiness levels before and after the mandatory time off. (We What’s the solution? Recurring, scheduled mandatory vacation. And everybody goes.

Company 8

Company Absenteeism Policies Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Supply-chain speed and agility sharply increase when information is shared across the network. Given the lag time before changes in demand are actually felt by different players along the chain, their effects are amplified when they hit, leading to inventory shortages or pile-ups. Improve information flows.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.

Management 11

Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8