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Ripple Effect: Seven Keys to Team and Culture Development

The Practical Leader

Team Decisions and Collective Actions Functional silos and vertical accountability often create disparate groups of hard-driving leaders who meet to share information and provide individual input to budgets and operational plans. Meetings are mostly data dumps, this week’s firefighting, and operational/technical problem-solving.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” The key is balancing both tactical and adaptive performance. ” In order to reduce wasted effort and increase the team’s decision rights, experiments should be short in nature.