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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO

Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Agile can help build trust between teams, stakeholders, and leadership, but agile cannot correct a lack of trust between people.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. In the world of business management, the game is played for keeps, but not all employees respond exclusively to a win-lose attitude. Avoid micromanaging.

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Success is not a zero-sum game

Lead on Purpose

In games like chess , one person wins and the other loses. Life in the business world at times feels like a zero-sum game. Chris Warner and Don Schmincke , the authors of the book High Altitude Leadership describe what happens when people do not work together. The win (+1) added to the loss (-1) equals zero.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Core Responsibilities of the AI Product Manager. Product Managers are responsible for the successful development, testing, release, and adoption of a product, and for leading the team that implements those milestones. Identifying the problem. Agreeing on metrics. Don’t expect agreement to come simply.

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Five championship strategies

Lead on Purpose

During this conversation Larry shares the strategies that have made his teams successful through the years. What struck me the first time I listened to this podcast is how beautifully these principles apply to product management, to leadership and to life in general. Focus on the final score.

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Book Review: Halftime

Lead on Purpose

He compares it to halftime in sports (games like basketball and American football) that have a break during games. This break gives the teams a chance to evaluate their performance in the first half and chart ways to improve in the second half.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Leadership is more about the state of mind than the title. Leadership is a choice. – The Product Management Perspective: Much has been written about product owner vs. product manager. To me, “product owner&# was just an agile title for the guy who fed requirements into the dev team.