Decker Communication

APRIL 27, 2022

How wrong we were! The executive entered the conference room and shared his theme for the keynote: “Digital Transformation is culture transformation , plain and simple. I want to talk about how developing a digital culture can lead to breakthrough performance and truly transformative outcomes.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 19, 2014

Of why this learning experience is important, not only in terms of your organization’s future growth and agility, but to their ability to become stronger and more valued contributors to your organization’s shared purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

Seasoned CEOs, hired for their industry experience and leadership abilities, may never actually have had to pivot and innovate in the way that today’s world requires: agile, fast, and iterative. At one conference I attended (the Direct Marketing Association, no less!) Reinvention Requirements.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

And Maya Hu-Chan’s new book, SAVING FACE: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust is full of ways for leaders to: Increase your positive influence. As an example of how to save face, I often share the story of Jeff, the finance director of a multinational company. In my book, I share an AAA model for cultural agility.

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Career Advancement

JULY 19, 2021

Several key competencies will aid in the development of all of those skills: The ability to think outside of the box, maintaining a healthy curiosity about how to best respond to change. An aptitude for thriving in ambiguity and remaining agile, ready to try new ideas, since change will continuously be occurring.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

Fun is the element that allows people to make it through the difficult tasks and overwhelming deadlines, and the best leaders know how to make it work without compromising the team’s work ethic or commitment to excellence. Be agile and flexible. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Succeed as A New Leader.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 15, 2020

We don’t choose what changes may hit us, but we choose how to respond. ” I first met W Mitchell at a professional speakers conference. Choosing Our Framework – applying powerful new research from the rapidly emerging field of Positive Psychology to build resilience and agility. Shift happens.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

There are many considerations here for how HR can contribute to business growth: Analyze the labor market and understand what the competition is doing as well as relevant trends and policies Provide competitive benefits and opportunities for employees Select the right avenues for recruitment and carefully assess the quality of candidates from each (..)

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2020

That is why if you want to future-proof your career, you really do need to keep up with technology and keep improving your digital skills whether that means learning how to code or studying for your agile product owner certification. Focus on Transferable Skills. Review Your Options.

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Surviving Leadership

JULY 24, 2019

This month’s entries include: John Hunte r, author and founder of Curious Cat, LLC, explores some suggestions on how to successfully navigate change , including leveraging influence AND acknowledging the sins of the past. Perhaps you’ve run into John Baldino (aka Jumbo Gina), President of Humareso, in your travels to conference.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Exchanging ideas in the flagship Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 The Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 was sponsored by CMI – and was a huge success. Event details here.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? My #1 book recommendation for how to find your purpose and lead from the inside-out in life's most difficult situations is: Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. To be a better leader, start by working on yourself.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Change can be a great learning experience if we know when and how to align ourselves (and our mindsets). Ability to change, readiness to realignment and agility in mindset are the new competitive advantages. That means, even when everything is seemingly going great, you need to watch out for signs of change.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

One of the nice steps in many agile software development efforts is the inclusion of retrospectives to iteratively think about the process of work and make changes. Add up the hourly cost of those sitting in the meeting and you will often find yourself shocked at how much you “spend” without thinking about it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. Early in the project, she held a press conference claiming that the project would be “on time and on budget.”

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How to apply the model. 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. Edwards Deming Institute conference. Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

” To sustain success, you must develop learning agility. What is Learning Agility? Learning agility is the capacity for rapid, continuous learning from experience. A desire to develop by acquiring new skills and mastering new situations is a fundamental element of learning agility. Ask for feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Building on their team successes, they created an "Agility capture team" of senior IT leaders to address larger issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. When I was a managing partner at Accenture, our Organization & Change Strategy team helped design a new conference facility for one of our offices. Stu Heinecke.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

It manifests itself in endless rounds of meetings and conference calls to ensure that every stakeholder is heard and aligned. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. percent global economic growth, according to recent estimates by the Conference Board. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.” They look at the explosive growth of companies such as WhatsApp or Instagram and assume that true innovation is the realm of digital wonks and ambitious entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Just as agile product development methods, such as Scrum , use process and tracking tools to set and track execution rhythm, so must the organization''s leader measure and monitor to ensure useful output. Some may be motivated by threats, others by solutions and the impact they can have on the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

The idea is to fast-forward a project, so you can see what the end result might look like and how the market will react. It’s also a popular construct in agile project management. We’ve seen firsthand, again and again, how they help teams get more done and move faster. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise. Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. Talk a little about the growth mindset and how it relates to culture. I reached out to talk with him about his book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. How to Compete When IT Is Abundant. See also here , here , and here.) Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". Strategy doesn't give employees enough guidance to know how to take action, and plans are too rigid to adapt to changing circumstances. But how to ensure the human network made the right decisions?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") In this volatile climate, the new watchword for business is "agility." Your CHRO knows how to lavish out perquisites, especially to the CHRO. Does your CHRO blog, tweet, have RSS feeds, and know what cloud computing, SaaS, and YouTube are?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Carlos tried to focus on what Irina, one of Larry’s developers, was telling him about the current agile sprint. She nodded, and they walked to a small conference room. I know he slept in the conference room at least two nights last week, and this week he hasn’t been in at all. “Do you have a minute?”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

. “I’m amazed to find people who have worked on the same floor for years and don’t even say hi to each other,” says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of the HBR article, “ Emotional Agility.” As a remote worker, pay particular attention to how you communicate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. It’s not very agile.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them. I’ve got to protect myself.”

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Lead from Within

JUNE 25, 2020

Some leaders are physically absent—always away at a meeting or conference, wandering somewhere else in the building or working from home. Agile, creative leadership has the power to energize, engage and motivate people to go the extra mile for their organization. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. Absent leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

I began my journey in a Moroccan souk, an ancient marketplace where people must look each other in the eye over a pile of goods and decide whether to buy or sell, without the cover of email or conference calls. Sullivan has read numerous sales books and attended conferences, but says most provide no more than a brief sugar high.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Build is an incredible opportunity to learn how to start, grow, and exit a business from someone who has been through it all.

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