InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There are many styles and forms of leadership. In this article we explore social leadership. A form of leadership that has helped to challenge views on what leadership truly is and find out what behaviours can help create collaborative cultures and spaces where learning and meaningful engagement matter the most.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 4, 2023

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of production operations at the beginning of the SRE transformation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s always fun to look back to see what resonated as the best leadership articles of the year at Let’s Grow Leaders. The post The Best Leadership Articles of 2020 (and more … based on your votes) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Most years, there’s quite a mix of topics and interests.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. No surprise that all six values rise and fall on leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. Now you want them to be leadership coaches too?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“Hi, Karin, our company is growing so fast, I’m not even sure what our CULTURE is. How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! You don’t need to wait for the bigger culture to emerge.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 5, 2021

The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Overcoming an Outdated Leadership Brand. You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. What is a leadership brand? Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing your leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. Read the article here. Read more here.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 14, 2021

The Flow System elevates Lean Thinking in an age of complexity by combining complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science into the Triple Helix of Flow, which organizations can use to become more innovative, adaptive, and resilient. By Ben Linders, John Turner, Nigel Thurlow, Brian Rivera.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and the diverse choices made to support employees who survived, and those they had to say good-bye to. By Mehnaaz Abidi

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But they also foster a reactive culture. In this article, the author offers tips that will help you focus on what’s truly urgent in your organization and enable your team to deliver strong results and sustain high performance over time. The headwinds of false urgency can be intense.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an organizational system grows complex, it hardens through processes, beliefs, mindsets, legacy decisions and culture. Building a Culture of Change Acceptance I read a recent HBR article titled “ Getting Employee Buy-In for Organizational Change ” by Andrea Belk Oslon with great interest. Enroll Today!

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 10, 2023

Should I change my style to fit in with my workplace culture? Hey Karin, “I take my leadership very seriously. And recently, I got some feedback from someone who matters who told me I need to make adjustments to my style to better fit in with our culture. Clearly, Freddie Mercury had a unique style of his own.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 20, 2021

Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, building personal leadership values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. What’s your perspective on that?”

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 30, 2021

A recent Software Delivery Leadership Forum panel discussion shared approaches and tactics for creating a successful DevOps culture. The panel stressed the importance of an aligned culture around the DevOps adoption. By Shaaron A Alvares.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2021

If you want to improve your leadership skills and don’t know where to start, begin with these 6 fundamental concepts you can’t lead without. These very practical leadership skills will serve you across contexts and work at every level of the business. Start Here to Improve Your Leadership Skills. Schedule the finish.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improved model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues. By Erin Doyle

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Among other accolades, he was named Consumer Goods Technology’s 2013 CIO of the Year and was the 2021 recipient of the Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE award for Leadership. Humility, Empathy, Adaptability, Resiliency, and Transparency) have become fundamental to his leadership style. Can you unpack those a bit? .

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 7, 2021

In this article we will discuss which metrics are appropriate based on the stage of the culture change. Coupling these metrics with strong support from leadership will ensure the best improvements in team measures such as cycle time, deployment frequency, and software quality.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In the book The Art of Leadership, Michael Lopp shares stories of leadership habits and practices. Examples include reading the room, getting feedback, delegation, giving compliments, understanding the culture, and being kind.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 16, 2023

Learn how an award-winning CEO transformed a once struggling organization by improving its workplace culture. In this article I will tell you an interesting story about how I became a successful CEO and what I believe was my biggest lesson. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MAY 12, 2021

In this article, Cosima Laube explores how regular structured writing for the sake of reflection and learning looks, and shares her own experience with different journaling variants and techniques, as well as some science and meta-level views.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Curiosity is a powerful practice to infuse into a company’s culture. Curiosity is an exceptionally effective tool that leaders have to lead diverse teams in an increasingly complex time filled with technological advancements and an ever-changing cultural pulse. But they need to do so intentionally.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Great corporate cultures are not just good for performance, but for the flourishing and engagement of the people who work in them and to deliver greater meaning and purpose. But oft overlooked is the central role that curiosity plays in crafting an organizational culture.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the first steps you can take to create a high-performing culture is to assess what is and isn’t working in your current culture. An assessment of your current culture gives you an understanding of the starting point for your journey toward building a high performance culture.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 31, 2022

The culture and methods trends report for 2022 shows that organizations, teams, and individuals face challenges on multiple fronts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. If you need help creating clarity, this article is a great place to start. Or, drop us a note.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the past several year’s workplaces have started to feel the effects of “Toxic Leadership.” None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a nontoxic leader.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

But you can’t speak a speak-up culture into existence — doing so in the absence of true psychological safety is an abdication of leadership and an admission of failure. When employees at every level speak up, they circulate local knowledge, expand the universe of useful ideas, and prevent collective tunnel vision.

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Perficient

JULY 19, 2023

Perficient’s culture and success are defined by the best and brightest people in the industry – our colleagues. Building a culture that champions the accomplishments of every individual, both personally and professionally, is incredibly important.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

To build a high-performance culture, you have to define what high performance is. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Please click the article headline above or go to [link] for more. Make sure your definition leads to the behaviors you want.

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