Category: Business
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Part 3: Embracing Agile Values and Principles: Moving from a Distinct Way of Working to the Only Way of Working
Learn how to make Agile the standard in your organization by embracing its values and principles, empowering teams, and aligning decisions with strategic goals.
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Baby Boomer Retirement: Boardroom Challenges and the Shift from Shareholder to Stakeholder Value
As Baby Boomers retire, their financial needs exert significant pressure on corporate boards, often prioritizing short-term gains over the long-term shift from shareholder to stakeholder value. This article examines the challenges corporate leaders face in balancing these demands while promoting sustainable, stakeholder-focused governance. It provides actionable insights for navigating this transitional period and ensuring alignment…
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Part 1. Introduction: The Evolution from Shareholder Value to Stakeholder Value through Agile Ways of Working
Discover how businesses are evolving from a shareholder-focused model to one that prioritizes stakeholder value, using agile methods to drive sustainable and inclusive growth.
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Lessons from Elon Musk on Innovation
Are his predictions being given more airtime than they should because he is perpetually wrong? Of course. It’s called, “Celebrity CEO” status, and why the SEC is after him. At the same time, his companies out innovation other companies by a ratio of about 5:1.
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List of Reading Lists
People ask me all the time where I keep my reading list. Well… my reading list is dynamic so posting a static version would be silly. So… by way of Internet Magic, I post links to the various reading lists I have. READERS NOTE: I neither endorse nor disagree with any of the books in…
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The Most Powerful Question
I’ve always lived under the assumption that the question “Why” what the most powerful question. I’m now convinced there is a more powerful question that can unlock change in people. The question is, “What am I grateful for?” I just read this article on The Ladders written by UCLA researcher, Alex Korb, PhD. Alex is…
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Performance Management Programs and Annual Appraisals
Corporations adopting Agile practices on their way towards being Agile often struggle with many legacy operational policies and procedures. One question that always comes up is how to conduct performance management appraisals with employees when Agile Teams are supposed to be Self-Directed, Self-Managed and mostly autonomous?
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Lessons learned about being a fast-follower from driving around a new rental car
I don’t normally write reviews of automobiles. I felt compelled to write this one because of its relationship to addressing market demands. The car I drove this week was obviously targeted at a hyper-niche of the global automotive market: The Millennials. The design concepts are what I think are a good example learning how to…
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“A Musician Must Make Music…”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” — Abraham Maslow I had the rich pleasure to hear the William Peace University Peace Singers and Florida College Saturday night. That evening the Florida College students were spread amongst many volunteers hosts…
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Scaling Agile Doesn’t Necessarily Lead to Business Agility
You don’t scale agility. You create a business-market fit with adaption capability.