The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

The hype cycle surrounding Agile is almost deafening, with exponents advocating the virtues of the movement that grew out of software development circles to fundamentally change how many products and services are developed today. The paper also outlines some of the key organizational characteristics that render them suited to Agile.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The word agile invokes a lot of synonyms—lithe or limber, for those more inclined to literature, or quick and light-footed for those more focused on conveying its meaning. What is Agile HR?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2021

Agile is basically a philosophy that accompanies a way of working. You have to know how to be agile, flexible and decisive. Agile origin. What is agile? How does Agile architecture add value to the business? Agile architecture is based on the 360 ??customer

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Art Petty

MARCH 13, 2023

Using a disciplined, agile project management approach might be the most important thing you can do to succeed in identifying the right "next" in your career. The post Treat Your Career Pivot as an Agile Project to Make Progress Faster appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty. Here are ideas to help.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

"Warm and fuzzy" works well for internet memes--not for management advice. . Authors Colin Price and Sharon Toye, argue, "It's time to recognize that "soft stuff" is really the hard stuff and to bring hard science to management.". Performance Management and Coaching. Related articles. Team Building Emotional Bonds.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 14, 2024

Becoming a new manager is a significant step in your career journey. To succeed as a new manager and lead your team to excellence, you’ll need to hone specific leadership skills. In this blog, we’ll explore seven essential leadership skills that every new manager should know and cultivate.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 10, 2023

If you spend any time with managers these days, you’ll notice one theme quite quickly: the post-pandemic work world has them feeling overwhelmed. Why Do Managers Need Good Communication Skills? And this is just a starter list.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2024

In the bustling business landscape of London, talent management has become a crucial element for organizational success. The digital age has transformed the way businesses operate, necessitating a shift in talent management strategies to keep pace with technological advancements and the evolving workforce.

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CO2

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At the heart of navigating these tumultuous waters is the concept of Business Agility. But what does it truly mean to be agile in today’s world? The Rise of Business Agility Business Agility: The ability to adapt quickly to market changes, internally and externally. Let’s dive in.

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leaderCommunicator

MAY 23, 2022

Be more agile. And it’s the reason that the answer for many organizations is consistent: “we need a change management plan.”. While that plays out in the background – or more often, foreground – we’re also telling employees on a regular basis that they need to be bolder. Shift their mindset. Think disruptively. That’s a tall task.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

The post Borderless jobs and agile structures: How to build a future-proof organisation appeared first on CMI. Learn more about our membership benefits Join The Community CMI offers a variety of flexible membership solutions, tailored to your needs. Find out more and get involved in the CMI community today.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Year by year consultants and scholars around the world introduce hundreds if not thousands new management tools. One of those tools that has been already around for some years is organizational agility. In this blog post we explore the agility – performance relationship and ask whether striving for agility is worth it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

At one point, my manager told me that if I wanted to go into management, I would need to stay in a position for longer than a few years. Agile leaders are exactly what we need in our organizations that are getting bigger, flatter, and more complex. All of my career moves were of my own choosing. Take on unusual assignments.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. There seem to be two key reasons.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2018

These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face. Managers and their teams are feeling insecure, causing major health hazards. Agility: remain flexible to changes and adapt with speed. Agility has become a popular concept today.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Understanding the importance of change is the first step to understanding HR’s role in change management. Image: Freepik HR’s Role in Change Management: What Is Change Management? Change management begins and ends with HR. Change is undoubtedly the only constant in the modern business landscape.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team. Includes six key findings from “The Agile C-Suite” drawn from a study of hundreds of organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Companies are increasingly focusing on agility and adaptability, seeking leaders who can navigate rapidly changing business environments. Over time, however, they may become entrenched in their ways, leading to a lack of innovation and agility.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

No wonder that specialists and managers that have invested years gradually improving a process do not advocate nor gravitate toward abrupt change. As a consequence of this expectation, we live with accelerating change and drive the ability to manage and adopt it. Most larger organizations are not good at managing change.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Such leaders must possess various competencies, including sound strategy formulation, emotional intelligence, strong decision-making abilities, and effective team management. The Future of Leadership: N2Growth’s Vision N2Growth foresees a dynamic and transformative future for leadership shaped by continual learning and agility.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

This balance is crucial, and managing it effectively is complex. Where is the line drawn, and how can it be managed at this delicate intersection? Navigating the Tension between Progress and Control Managing data can be a challenging task as it often requires balancing the need for progress and control.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

The Swedish audio streaming service went on an executive hiring spree to remain agile at scale, allowing the $2-billion music tech company to maintain its capacity and drive to innovate. . First, learning agility. You could look at another impressive example in Spotify.

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HR Digest

MAY 4, 2024

This shift highlights the critical role of Human Resource (HR) strategies in managing gig workers effectively, considering their increasing prevalence across industries. This includes the adoption of new talent acquisition strategies, onboarding processes, and performance management systems tailored for short-term and flexible roles.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The importance of digital leadership in the modern business landscape cannot be overstated, as it catalyzes strategic decision-making, organizational agility, and long-term success. They need to have the vision to identify new opportunities and the agility to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

There are many challenges in implementing Agile Test Automation development. Therefore, this article will detail five steps for implementing Agile Test Automation development and offer up some words of wisdom. Pick a starting point : This is the most crucial step in implementing Agile test automation development.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JULY 7, 2019

Have you already completed your organization’s agile transformation? Agility and agile frameworks such as SCRUM are the new Holy Grail for private and public sector organizations. We take a closer look at the scientific foundation of agility and one of the most popular agile frameworks called SCRUM in this blog post.

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Lead from Within

MAY 17, 2024

These structures typically have a significant number of leaders and managers at the upper echelons, while front-line employees bear the brunt of the workload. Information often needs to travel through multiple layers of management before reaching the front-line employees who need it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Not surprisingly, the need for organizational agility sits high on executive agendas everywhere. Yet conventional silos, management practices and mindsets act as brakes on all of these.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics. Agility is key. That culture must welcome agility, stripped as much as possible of the bureaucracy that is no longer an asset to any enterprise. Why or why not?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2017

Agile project management can seem to be complex and daunting to undertake but it doesn’t need to be. The difference is that agile management is specifically targeted at adapting the project as it progresses, ensuring the end result is more successful and meets the changing demands of the business or customer.

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Change Starts Here

MARCH 18, 2014

Jason Little, author of Lean Change Management, joins the show this month to discuss his collection of innovative practices for managing organizational change.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JULY 7, 2019

Have you already completed your organization’s agile transformation? Agility and agile frameworks such as SCRUM are the new Holy Grail for private and public sector organizations. We take a closer look at the scientific foundation of agility and one of the most popular agile frameworks called SCRUM in this blog post.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JANUARY 5, 2020

Organizational agility is one of the key trends in almost all areas of management. Most of the available knowledge about when to apply an agile approach and how to apply it is related to product development.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

They have good managers, but do they have growth leaders? The New Normal: Learning Agile Leaders Who Operate At The Enterprise Level These are real CEOs from real companies across vastly different industries, with different business models and different profit motives. But he also knows that this is the easy part. What’s the hard part?

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Article: Why is everyone so busy, and what can managers do about it? Here’s why managers are the key to managing stress in the workplace Ping. Delay incoming query from Peter in IT while on fire-fighting call to site manager. The post Why is everyone so busy, and what can managers do about it? Return to meeting.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 23, 2016

In this new reality, organizations are going to need to change how they change, to increase their organizational agility, to increase the flexibility of the organization, to create a culture of continuous change and simultaneously inhibit the appearance and for growth of the aforementioned change gaps. Performance Management and Coaching.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JUNE 29, 2019

Management trainings are an important part of most corporate training programs. However, in a VUCA world organizations start more and more to move from a management training to a management learning approach. We do this from a knowledge worker's point of view during an product introduction project.

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