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Tales of Unicorns and Change Makers
For a long while I was chasing unicorns. Change was a wild creature of an amazing purity and grace. Like the horn of a unicorn, change was meant to be antitoxic, even having capabilities to awaken things from death. But I felt like I would never reach a level of expertise, which was of this…
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10 Components for a Successful Self-Management Transformation
What are the ingredients for a successful self-management transformation? K2K Emocionado has successfully transformed 70 organizations. In a guest post at Corporate Rebels, Lisa Gill takes a closer look at them and how they do it.
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Agile Organizational Transformation – Mind the People
When talking about agile and agility, we should not forget that we are talking a lot about culture, values, and identity. Irrespective if we start an agile transition from top to bottom or from bottom to top, we need to understand that we have to take a lot of people with us. For many it…
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23 Things to know before starting an agile organisational transformation
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John Kotter on why directors should embrace volatility
“The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers… They change things. They push the human race forward.” “The world has seen enough appointed committees. Then there’s bureaucracy, rigid accountability, metrics that measure certain things that are relevant right now but discourage people from trying new things.” ~ John P. Kotter
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Free Agile! Essential Reads
Everyone has different reading habits and preferred writing styles. Even though, it is remarkable, that for each of us it takes only a hand full of books, when it gets back to citations and argues on best practices and approaches. These books are our treasure chest. While the list of publications is growing at a…
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Change the way you look at things
found at Twitter by @Alijaney
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress
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Start by doing what’s necessary
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Don’t Pay One Large Consulting Firm — Invite 100 Small Ones
“Moving the responsibility for change from a hierarchy to a network is a transformation that is best stimulated by a network, not by a hierarchy.”
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Der Upstalsboom Weg (German)
When companies start to replace value creation by valuation, when they put employees in the center of their acting thereby, this is unleashing unknown potentials, which arises from this process. The story of Upstalsboom, a hotel chain which started to change the attitude towards employees by setting focus on valuation, is a brilliant example how…
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My 90 minutes agile training
Yesterday evening I was conducting a 90 minutes agile training. It has been the first for a while now. It has been a practice oriented training, and it has been very comprehensive and demanding, but I have learned a lot. That’s why I want to tell a bit about my experience.