Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. My experience is the opposite.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most of my clients these days are seeking help in developing strategies that will enable them to become more agile and quick. Let me share a model with you that I like to use when helping clients develop the transformation plans required to enable better agility: Agility can be assessed across four dimensions of adaptability, as follows: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders. Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. How is that possible?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What is a Leadership Development Program? Leadership development refers to specific programs utilized by organizations, in order to train or coach an employee(s) about effective leadership requirements. Why is leadership development important? Two Approaches to Learning about Leadership Development.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2022

Or, within a company, a sales manager strolling and talking with the head of project development. ” Hugo wasn’t the only workshop team member to report gaining a deeper understanding of the situation in Guatemala as a result of the stories shared during the walking exercise. A simple yet powerful exercise.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This challenges AI practitioners because they need to develop ways to decrease the need for human annotations. The activity in the field of learning with limited data is reflected in a variety of courses , workshops , reports , blogs and a large number of academic papers (a curated list of which can be found here ). Data scrutiny.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Leaders who ignore opportunities to engage with their team and show appreciation to their staff are robbing themselves of a valuable tool for establishing a loyal, long-term workforce. Allow them to take on major tasks, such as a high-profile project or a new leadership post, or pay for a workshop or conference.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. A DDD Exemplar is a project, ideally achievable within a quarter, that results in improvements in a domain(s) and improvements in how teams build products. It lays the foundations for other teams to copy and adapt.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. Potential Solutions: Service or Servant Leadership. Leadership Focuses on Strategy and Creating an Effective Work Environment. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

  In the meantime, here are some of the leadership lessons Feld has learned that stuck with me: Know Yourself:  Feld learned the circus by traveling around the world with his father searching for acts.    For Kenneth Feld, CEO of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, it must be hard to resist that feeling. 

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 29, 2010

So, with the idea in mind that a good way to learn leadership is to do the opposite of what really crappy leaders do, here is an edited list of readers' suggestions for seven simple rules for creating a fear based culture: 1.   We all have our favorite rules for creating a fear based culture. Posted by: David M.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In it, he describes  how real estate investor Sam Zell and his minions destroyed the culture of the Chicago Tribune and other great newspapers in its holding company. This dynamic can play out for good or for bad.   Still, it’s really easy for leaders with titles to underestimate the impact of their leadership footprint.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. To explain this concept, Sinek has developed what he calls the “Golden Circle,”. 1) When developing, maintaining and growing my business, I have focused heavily on the ‘why’. What does that even mean?

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. Since I was out of town, I had missed the investigative piece in the Washington Post last week that detailed decades of mismanagement at Arlington.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

who serve as inspiration to us all by the daily difference their leadership makes in our lives. You can nominate your unsung hero by leaving a comment explaning how their example of leadership touches the lives of others. Started the school a few years ago to teach students who were too poor to attend regular school.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

If you have any doubt, go read the reader comments on my recent post, Seven Simple Rules for Creating a Fear Based Culture. Which, finally, brings me to Bob Sutton and a couple of points he makes in Good Boss, Bad Boss. Why wasn't any "leadership" exercised onboard?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Could poor coaching be restricting the potential of your people and compromising performance? The CoachQuest team-based program develops leaders into great coaches to enable…. Increased team effectiveness. Become a better leader, better manager, better team player, and better person. Improved decision making.

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He also happens to be a Certified Facilitator of The Extreme Leadership Workshop. —SF Extreme Leadership by Richard Corder. I’d like to share some thoughts and stories that embody leadership for me. This story is about the notion of real, raw, leadership, and OS!M’s. Leadership is a funny word.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They are just underperformers who don’t have the skills to work with us.”. They leave because of unorganized company culture, failed growth, and hampered emotional health. To do this, assign training to team leaders of each department where they talk about how their department functions. They weren’t ready to work 12+ hours.”.

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QAspire

AUGUST 30, 2023

This mindset of seeing conversations as a medium to exchange energy helps me immensely when I coach, train and facilitate people and teams. Conversations are the currency of great leadership because they have the power to guide other people’s journeys, foster collaboration, build culture and tackle challenges as a team.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 1, 2021

A Sprint Backlog consists of a set of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) that the Developers think they can complete in the Sprint, along with the work needed, described in small enough chunks that progress can be tracked throughout the Sprint. Most Scrum Teams simply use whatever their online Scrum tool feeds them for their Sprint Backlog.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

This post is part of our new ScrumCast series of conversations with thought leaders who have successfully helped transform organizations and empower teams and individuals. Team Member? . This can also be a difficult challenge for leadership to solve. . by Tom Bullock , Dave Slaten , Avi Schneier | April 23, 2020 | Blog.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

Without further ado: Scrum Master Role & Responsibilities (Overview) It’s the Scrum Master’s responsibility to bring the development team on the same page by teaching them all the values and principles that fundamentally shape Scrum and, respectively, Agile. There are no team members complaining about work environments.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2017

We first met Cathy when she attended our workshop on how to co-author a book. You are helping your organizations develop new products and services. You develop cultures that foster innovation. When asked why, he said, “Now, the poor man who finds the first shoe will be able to have a use for the pair.”.

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scruminc

MAY 10, 2022

Value Stream Management allows you to determine the measurable flow of value, where value delivery is slowed down, as well as create opportunities for better alignment & collaboration among teams. It’s a critical aspect of lean operations that contributes to the success of agile product development and delivery.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Don Gray enlighten listeners regarding the world of software development, the reasons for implementing software changes and why it’s not as easy as people may think. Software development is not linear and not deterministic. Show Notes. Change is complex.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JUNE 25, 2020

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Kim Crayton, discuss how organizations are shaped by core values, and why values are integral for establishing true diversity and inclusion. This is another episode of the Programming Leadership podcast. Episode 47. Twitter: [link]. Coaching: [link]. Transcript.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

It’s not that there is one right process to work on first but the choice of a poor project creates many challenges that often lead to a bad name for the whole concept of business process management. Starting with a project that requires a different culture than the organization currently has. Uncommitted leadership.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

What I mostly wonder is if Dudley can learn what Hayward never did- that culture change is a lot like pregnancy- it has to involve all parts of the corporate body to be successful. Posted by: Barry Goldberg | August 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Great analogy about culture change and pregnancy, Barry. How about you? Click Here.

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. In another study, Thoughtworks found that, on average, when a piece of work leaves a team (i.e. When these dependencies span multiple teams we are walking a tightrope.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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