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Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility

The Practical Leader

There’s lots of talk about building agile organizations. Agile approaches began a few decades ago with software development. According to the Agile Alliance , “One thing that separates Agile from other approaches to software development is the focus on the people doing the work and how they work together.

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Score More in 2024: 24 Innovative Leadership Goals for the New Year

Modern Servant Leader

Implement Agile Practices : Popular in IT circles, more businesses are implementing Agile business practices. Measurement: Percentage of successful projects applying Agile methods. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics: You cannot manage what you cannot measure. How can you leverage this growing trend for greater expediency?

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? A Practical Guide For First Time Leaders and the People Who Support Them. Along with balance, great leaders must know themselves in order to lead others. For this to happen, you must love your constituents.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. Top Books About Leadership. Top Books About Leadership.

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