The Agile Advantage Mastering Business in the New Economy
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This document discusses the advantages of being an agile business. It argues that agility is needed to succeed in times of rapid change. It promotes adopting an agile culture with high performance, innovation, and skills development. Agile leadership requires making decisions quickly and supporting talent. An agile approach to talent focuses on attracting and retaining top performers through competitive benefits, recognition, and ensuring a good cultural fit. Agile decision-making uses techniques like swarming, observing, orienting, deciding and acting to solve problems collaboratively. The document suggests business review their culture, leadership, talent management, and decision-making to determine what changes are needed to operate more agilely.
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The Agile Advantage Mastering Business in the New Economy
- 1. The Agile Advantage Mastering Business in the New Economy Russell J White
- 2. Its Just Not Fun Anymore?
- 3. Is it Still Worth the Effort?
- 4. “In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” -- J. Paul Getty
- 6. Ever Been in an Earthquake?
- 7. Agility is Replacing Stability
- 8. Built for a shifting landscape
- 9. A Huge Shift is Going On! We don’t tell them what we want, they tell us what they want.
- 10. People don't resist change. They resist change being forced on them!
- 13. BlackBerry phones went from the front of the line to the back of the line in only 5 years.
- 14. Change is Driving Us, We Don’t Drive Change
- 15. The waves of change are getting bigger and faster. Are you becoming obsolete?
- 17. Keys
- 18. Command and Control Managers
- 19. Good Days
- 20. Scary Days
- 21. Bismark’s Hammer The time comes to lay down old tools
- 22. If 78% of working Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs, we are doing it wrong.
- 23. I don’t care how long you’ve been in business, what are you doing for me now?
- 24. The Agile Advantage Agile Culture Agile Leadership Agile Talent Agile Decision Making
- 25. Agile Culture “Agility means that you are faster than your competition. Agile time frames are measured in weeks and months, not years.” Michael Hugos
- 27. Examine systems, procedures, and policies
- 28. Innovate
- 29. Develop Skills, Reward with Responsibility
- 30. Where is Your Chicken Point?
- 31. What can be accomplished by an Agile Business?
- 32. What changes do you need to make to your culture?
- 33. Agile Leadership: “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 34. The New Economy Workforce • Fully connected • The best talent are free agents • Extremely communicative • Where Gen X liked work/life balance, the Next Gen likes work/life blending
- 35. Make Uncertainty Your Comfort Zone
- 36. Be Decisive in Indecisive Times
- 37. Where do miraculous decisions come from? • Being in tune with the direction of the company • Committed talent who support the decisions • Knowing what your customers need next (even before they know)
- 38. Recalculate
- 39. Focus on behaviors more than goals
- 40. What changes do you need to make to your leadership?
- 41. Agile Talent Why should I Who cares about my career? work here? How can I Do they know how grow here? good I am? Rules for a Free Agent Market
- 42. Why do you want top talent?
- 43. We are used to branding to customers
- 44. What is your employment brand?
- 45. I got your employment brand -- right here!
- 46. Win Talent Wars by Becoming an Employer of Choice
- 47. The Steelers War Room
- 48. The Agile Business War Room • Detailed talent assessment of each individual • Prioritized list of talent deficiencies • Examples of talents on display (game films) • Corporate measurements and trend charts
- 50. The VIP Treatment
- 51. “A little bit of weird”
- 52. Who is Critically Important?
- 53. Talent likes to do what they are good at while being recognized for their contribution. You want them to soar.
- 54. Top talent will most frequently quit their boss more often than quit their company.
- 55. Top talent wants to be with other top talent
- 56. Fit for the culture Fit to the focus The Fit Fit for the position Fit for the rest of the workforce Fit for the management capability Fit for the future
- 59. What changes do you need to make to your talent management?
- 60. Agile Decision Making How do they manage not to collide with each other?
- 62. Swarm Team Rules • Sketch up a project • Determine the talents that will be needed • Decentralize coordination • Create a spontaneous event • Experiment and create
- 63. Swarming employees with customers
- 64. The company wanted to make sure that each plane got in and out as quickly as possible, even if it arrived early or late.
- 66. Observe Orient OODA Loop Act Decide
- 68. What is a wiki?
- 69. The Company Wiki
- 70. The Exchange This is a conference table
- 71. What changes do you need to make in how decisions are made?
- 72. What is the Agile Advantage?
- 73. What does the boss want us to do?
- 74. I know what to do to get the job done
- 77. Thank you for bringing me back to Round Up! Check out my videos at BizWizTV.com for more information to help your business. Contact me: Russell@RussellWhite.com
Editor's Notes
- Look beyond the goals and dig deeper into what creates goal achievement.
- Did work on Monsters, Inc. the Incredibles, Cars, Wall-E to name a few
- Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay)
- Make use of the best intelligence available, put observation in context, select action based on knowledge, carry out selected action