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10 Learning and Development Books for 21st Century Leaders & Organizations

Experience to Lead

We asked our WDHB team about their favorite Learning & Development books of the year so that we could sharing these bold, thought-provoking publications with you. We hope these reports will open your mind to innovative development strategies, just like the books listed below. Robert Kohls.

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Asking the Experts: Has the Definition of DevOps Changed?

CollabNet VersionOne

The idea originated with a need for two siloed teams to exchange perspective and work together. If operations teams understand the work and processes of their development counterparts, operations teams can improve communication and better respect the time and effort of devs.

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The Patrol Method and Objections to Self-Directed Agile Teams

The Agile Manager

In the previous post , we saw there are quite a few similarities between the Patrol method and self-directed Agile teams. Of course, trust is earned and not given, and while it takes time to develop it takes only seconds to erode. Self-directed teams are a departure from traditional command-and-control hierarchy.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. This dynamic can play out for good or for bad. Different people chose different options.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

This working paper was submitted as a chapter in The International Handbook of Lean Organization , Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. How are they getting along?

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Train-Wreck Management

LeanEssays

1] These words open Peter Scholtes classic book on leadership. Assigning blame for a problem to the last person involved is worse than counterproductive, it will probably make the bad situation worse. That is why one way of motivating people to do kaizen is to create a poor standard. But don't make it too bad.

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Social and Emotional Learning: What it is, why it matters, & how analytics can help

PowerSchool

Aside from their effect on academic development, an assortment of topics fell into the category of SEL—such as moral competence, self-determination, self-efficacy, self-regulation, positive identity, physical health conscience behaviors, and pro-social involvement just to name a few. Why is SEL an important factor in whole child development?

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