Business 5 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Understand Your Company’s Vision (via HBR) Telling them only once Giving just the high-level view (everyone needs to connect what they do to the vision) Lack of clarity Distaste of the vision People not…
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Professional Development – 2021 – Week 36
Agile 6 Principles to Build Your Company’s Strategic Agility (via HBR) Speed > perfection Flexibility > planning Efficient slack > over-optimization Empowerment > hierarchy Learning > blaming Resource modularity > lock-in Communication How to Ask a Colleague to Mask Up…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 35
Agile Why Agile Will Continue to Fail (via Software Lead Weekly) Click-bait title based on someone who got burned by the “I learned about Scrum for two days, so we’re doing that now” trope. There were a few concepts that…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 34
Business Do You Have the Right Software for Your Digital Transformation? (via HBR) “Succeeding in digital transformation begins with platform selection — finding the right constellation of basic apps plus the ability to rapidly regenerate error-free, running code to support…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 33
Business The Power of Anomaly (via HBR) “A company can be thought of like a sphere—as it expands, its internal volume increases faster than its external surface area does, driving internal focus by default.” “If a signal were clear, everyone…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 32
Business The Circular Business Model (via HBR) Manufacturing physical goods presents a challenge of not having consumers through your product in a landfill. The circular model involves reclaiming the product — leasing it (so you always own it and can…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 31
Agile Why I Don’t Emphasize Sprint Goals (via Mountain Goat Software) I normally don’t care for Mike’s posts, as they tend to glorify Scrum™® at all costs. This one was different: Sometimes goals don’t work for a sprint. The post…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 30
Agile The impact of agility: How to shape your organization to compete (via Emily Moses) Agile transformation is about moving away from (1) multi-layer reporting, (2) annual budgets, and (3) compliance orientation to (a) high-performing teams, (b) alignment on strategy,…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 29
Leadership Leadership Training Can Pay Huge Dividends for Midsize Companies (via HBR) There are many constraints for mid-sized companies, acting as barriers to developing emerging leaders; however, equipping those leaders with valuable skills can really pay off later. (1) Design…
Professional Development – 2021 – Week 28
Business Don’t Ban “Politics” at Work (via HBR) This move typically backfires by either (1) people leaving, (2) or requiring a litany of specific rules about what people can and can’t discuss at work. Instead… (1) build empathy toward others’…