Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Millenials are the most connected generation, given how advances in technology have all but broken down the traditional communication barriers. Social media allows individuals to bypass organizational and hierarchical constraints and connect directly person-to-person. They’re not entirely off base.

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Proposal Constraint eBook Agility 120

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Focusing on financial outcomes is important but the details on how those outcomes can be achieved and sustained are usually missing or to high level to be actionable. In the new strategy paradigm, the focus of strategy is on how to create competitive advantage. For most organizations, cross silo cooperation is an unnatural act.

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Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? How to make your company more nimble and responsive. What can I do?”

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Advances in platform technology are helping organizations make strides toward long-standing goals of agility, simplicity, and cost savings. The transformation of platforms from complex and expensive stacks of hardware into flexible computing resources represents a major step toward enabling business agility.

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Technology Agility Content Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. How did you attack this transformation, and how has that impacted the whole organization? They started asking us, “How do you do that?

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Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

But nothing quite beats a face-to-face, one-on-one meeting, says Elizabeth Grace Saunders , the author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money , and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training. And from a rapport point of view, they are how you show employees that you value them and care about them.”

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Productivity Products How To Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We have been told that participative leadership, rather than prescriptive leadership, is what we should aim for; that organizations should be agile, with “change the only constant”; and that empowerment is critical for employee satisfaction and long-term value. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. You and Your Team Series.

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Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

To be fair, in the 20th century there really wasn’t any other model for how to build startups other than write a plan, raise money, and execute — and the bubble put this method on steroids. Then one day it was over. IPOs dried up.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Andy O''Connell A Brief History Creativity Creep The New Yorker There''s no shortage of books and articles on how to be more creative. Open Your Wallet How to Get Into an Ivy League College — Guaranteed Businessweek Can predictive analytics guarantee that your kid gets into a top college?

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Creativity Entrepreneur Open-book Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Companies tend to creating rigid routines for specialized tasks to achieve productivity, but they pay for that in reduced agility and resilience. So the first thing Oracle set out to learn was how to foil downwind. Nobili told us, “After each race, crew members did their best to offer ideas on how to improve performance.

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Sports Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. Mark Bonchek.

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Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. How to Compete When IT Is Abundant. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Once a key capability was identified, staff could engage in conversation about how to use that capability differently, which allowed the owners of that capability an opportunity to identify with the new future. Capabilities are made up of people, processes, and technologies. The program is currently being rolled out with other populations.

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System Self-aware Business Model Metrics 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. Lakhani (Harvard Business School Press, 2020) AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.

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Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

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

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 401