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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

No matter how fast the horse is, if you don’t have the right jockey with the right skills, victory will elude you. Too much time is spent identifying business results expected (lagging indicators) with too little time and attention paid to how to create (leading indicators) those results. Agile and Fast.

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Ready to Grow Your Business? How to Appeal to Niche Audiences

Strategy Driven

They need to be agile and dynamic to respond to the new challenges expansion creates – increased demands on their knowledge, skills and time. Shares in companies that supply products for seniors have a very healthy return – the health sector, pharmaceuticals, and even the leisure industry have been boosted by the change in demographics.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Extensive assessment data has revealed that learning agility, or the ability to apply past experiences and lessons learned to new situations and first-time challenges, and self-awareness are proven predictors of future success. About the Author.

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Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business Review

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Here are some lessons we have learned about how to make the huddles approach work.

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To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax

Harvard Business Review

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy.

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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate

Harvard Business Review

At IDEO, we believe that the most significant change often comes through social movements, and that despite the differences between private enterprises and society, leaders can learn from how these initiators engage and mobilize the masses to institutionalize new societal norms. Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study.

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