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4 Essential Change-Management Leadership Skills

CMOE

Being a great leader requires the ability to adapt to change. Unfortunately, not enough leaders are equipped with the right training or knowledge to effectively lead their team members through change; almost two-thirds of employers noted that a lack of change-management expertise was a problem during their recent initiatives.

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Are These Agile Transformation Blind Spots Holding You Back?

Planview

It’s common to encounter blind spots when you’re navigating an Agile transformation. They can show up as Agile practices that are meant to improve business agility but are applied so extremely that they end up making organizations less agile. Hyper Focusing on Agile Teams. But it’s not always easy to identify them.

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Why Business Leaders Need To Learn About Social And Political Movements

Digital Tonto

The most important challenge leaders face is to navigate change. Consider that, after decades of trying, skills like lean manufacturing, agile development and overcoming unconscious bias are woefully under-adopted in most organizations. One reason for this dismal performance is how we research and learn about change.

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The Best Innovation Keynote Speakers Talking Points & Presentations

Leapfrogging

Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. When it comes to innovation leadership, keynote speakers can: Show how leaders can set a precedent for innovation within their teams. Highlighting the importance of collaboration and diversity in driving innovation.

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The great GE innovation experiment

Jeffrey Phillips

We can also find out which leaders will adopt innovative measures, and change the cultures of their businesses, and which will "stay the course". When the pace of change was slower, and change was more predictable, getting to economies of scale and growing a conglomerate made sense.

Agile 144
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Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?

Daniel Burrus

We want to be agile, reactionary, and cautious — It is a primordial instinct in many. But as I have mentioned to clients and colleagues many times over the course of my career: Agility will never set you ahead of disruption; it will only give you momentary peace of mind. An Anticipatory Mindset Helps You Know When Agility Is Necessary.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. Inertia is the resistance to any change in the current state of motion. Your subtitle refers to “lean” principles; I’m assuming they respond to these restraining forces? Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation.

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