Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Last year, I had a client identify a concern regarding the communications gap that seemed to exist between team members in the trenches and those in the executive suite. The response? We developed a series of "Communicating UP" workshops, designed to facilitate better communication up the food chain. It was a surprising success.
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Risk Management and the Strategy Process
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Risk Management and the Strategy Process
Last week, in Part I of this Advisor, I discussed important changes I saw happening in the Hadoop/Big Data world in order to accelerate enterprise adoption of the technology (see "Big Changes on the Horizon for Big Data -- Part I").
"My job is to get people to work hard."
That's how Manager Mike characterized his role. And that's how many managers see their roles. It's not surprising, since many traditional management practices aim to extract maximum individual effort -- to get people to work hard, as Manager Mike put it.
Implementing an agile product development process has many challenges. One that is not regularly addressed is who will lead each of the Scrum teams. Many organizations default to the seemingly obvious answer of the Scrum Master. Often ill-defined (even with "certification"), this role is essentially the agile version of the project manager. But agile teams are supposed to be self-organizing, leaving project managers (who don't contribute in other ways) largely useless.