This document discusses the concept of agility. It defines agility as the flexibility and ability of an organization to rapidly adapt and change direction. Being agile is about consistently adapting to solve clients' needs through collaboration, speed, and stability. It emphasizes being practical over practices and focusing on outcomes rather than outputs. The document advocates for people-oriented agility through empowerment and increasing the meaning of work. It also discusses embracing mistakes as learning opportunities and having adaptive leadership to respond quickly to changes.
My keynote talk at Agile of the East, Kolkata on 11-Nov. In this talk, I have shared a perspective on what an agile transformation could bring, and some anti-patterns
In a turbulent environment, managers and leaders need to constantly adjust, cooperate and anticipate future changes. This presentation, given as part of PÖL Digital free meetup sessions, is an introduction to leadership agility as well as the Agile Profile®. Agile Profile is a management tool and a methodology to measure the level of agility of an organization, and identify how management behaviors and culture can be changed to better meet the demande of the environment.
My keynote talk at Agile of the East, Kolkata on 11-Nov. In this talk, I have shared a perspective on what an agile transformation could bring, and some anti-patterns
In a turbulent environment, managers and leaders need to constantly adjust, cooperate and anticipate future changes. This presentation, given as part of PÖL Digital free meetup sessions, is an introduction to leadership agility as well as the Agile Profile®. Agile Profile is a management tool and a methodology to measure the level of agility of an organization, and identify how management behaviors and culture can be changed to better meet the demande of the environment.
Benchmarking teams is tricky - it is too easy to amplify dysfunctional behaviour. It is also not easy to find a meaningful metric. This presentation describes an proven approach to concentrate on self assessment of capabilities.
Leadership Agility is the ability to rage effective action in complex rapid changing conditions. Team and organizational agility refer to the same set of capacities. Organizational agility is an ability for an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and succeed in a rapidly changing, ambiguous, turbulent environment. Agility is not incompatible with stability – agility requires stability.
Organizations striving to grow and sustain their success in these dynamic times often try to identify the characteristics in their executives that will propel the enterprise toward its potential. The prevailing thought goes something like this: we want greater organizational agility so what does that look like in our key people? Fair question, but not likely to lead them where they want to go.
The challenge is Organizational Agility is an outcome we can measure organizationally not a personal characteristic. The executives can do a number of things to increase the organization’s agility but they themselves don’t exhibit it.
Let's discuss all of these with Abiodun Osoba (International Lean/Agile Coach & Trainer for Enterprise Transformations)
How do we sell Agile to senior managers?- A talk by by Melanie Franklin for t...Natasha Hill
For those of us working with Agile, the benefits are obvious. We have already gone through the transition from waterfall to agile projects and strongly believe that agile is intuitively the right way to work.
But....not all of our stakeholders are in the same place. If we want our organisations to further adopt Agile we are going to have to persuade decision makers and those with authority and governance responsibilities that it's the best way to work.
This workshop helps to understand how to create the most effective messages to persuade non-Agile managers to become more Agile!
6 Questions to Ask Before Implementing Change in OrganizationsSlideShop.com
Dealing with organizational change can be stressful. To lessen the challenges that may be encountered during the transition, answer the 6 questions enumerated in this presentation.
If you know of change management tips that may help other people, feel free to add them in the comment section.
In Agile Transformation, C comes before A by Syed RiyazuddinAgile ME
Almost 19 years since Agile Manifesto was published, organizations are still struggling to adopt and mature Agile. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to Agile transformation strategy, but plenty of learning from other successful/ failed initiatives.
I will discuss one of the crucial prerequisites of Agile transformation, Cultural assessment, referring to some of the popular models, such as Schneider and Laloux. But most importantly which framework would be most suitable, mapping to cultural type of a department/organization. Not limiting to Scrum, or Kanban, but considering other methods such as Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps etc, to formulate one that aligns with organization's culture. At two levels, first Adoption and then Scale (Scale -up or -out).
Along the way, I will share insights from my experience, some use cases, from working across organizations of various sizes and shapes, and the factors that enabled success in their transformation journeys.
Switching on the agile light takes more than flickMike Burns
"There is a large difference between doing agile and being agile. Modern change management techniques suggest many ways of implementing a new organisational change such as agility. However, there are times when just doing it and making it the baseline means that you can kick-start the agile journey. This presentation will present some ideas on the things that you can enforce and the things that will take time."
Presented as part of the "Agile & DevOps Conference- LET’S SWITCH IT ON", held in Brisbane on the 31st of August 2018
https://www.knowledgehut.com/events/devops/agile-devops-conference-brisbane
My keynote a #TAFAC2019 on lessons learnt from #scaling #agile from a team to an organization and what are the factors behind a successful agile transformation
A talk by Tim Basadur and Ellen Moran PhD
Basadur Applied Innovation & Leadership Dialogues
Many companies are returning to a changed business context and need to quickly solve a range of new problems or reinvent their products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate. Many fewer recognize that achieving these creative results efficiently requires an effective process, specific skills and tools, and the right blend of thinking styles working in sync with one another. When any of these are lacking, teams may struggle to innovate. To help leaders, business owners and HR professionals engage these challenges, Ellen Moran and Tim Basadur will provide an introduction to the Simplexity Method for Applied Innovation which is designed to enable teams and organizations to achieve innovative results quickly.
Session Outcomes:
• Discover the necessary elements for innovative results – The Innovative Results Equation • Learn the four creative problem-solving preferences of team members and how their way of interacting can be a facilitator or roadblock for team innovation. • Understand the four-stage innovation process to move teams through problem-finding, problem-defining, problem solving and solution implementation in a way that drives strong team alignment and commitment. • Leave with practical tools and frameworks that can immediately boost creative collaboration where you work.
Watch REPLAY here:
https://leading-in-crisis.turnkeycoachingsolutions.com/talks/unleashing-the-creative-potential-of-your-teams/
**Leading in a Crisis Free Virtual Summit 40+ Speakers:**
https://leading-in-crisis.turnkeycoachingsolutions.com/
Becoming Agile: Agile Transitions in Practice - Rashina Hoda - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
Agile adoption has been typically understood as a one-off organisational process involving a staged selection of Agile development practices. This does not account for the differences in the pace and effectiveness of individual teams transitioning to Agile development.
About Rashina Hoda:
Dr Rashina Hoda is an internationally renowned researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has 10+ years' experience studying Agile teams and is the author of 60+ publications on Agile self-organisation, project management, knowledge management, reflective practice, task allocation and more.
Rashina served as the Research Chair of the Agile India 2012 conference and recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at the flagship international conference on software engineering (ICSE2017) for her ‘grounded theory of becoming Agile’ that explains the multiple dimensions of Agile transitions in practice.
She created and teaches the Agile course at UoA in close collaboration with industry and loves to present the 'voice of Agile research' to industry and academia alike.
Unlocking business agility through agile leadershipBejoy Jaison
Bejoy Jaison's talk at Last Conference, Brisbane, 2017. Looks at microagility (team level) and macroagility (business level) to bring out how good agile leadership is essential to facilitate business agility.
Motivational and Agile Mindset- Best of Both WorldsAdvance Agility
Every minute of an average day is formed by its share of constant tasks and priorities, coupled with an ever-growing list of assignments. It can be difficult to acquire insight into the health of a project without a plan in place. This is where an agile mentality comes to work!
Though traditionally linked with software development teams, the agile technique is currently being used successfully by a wide range of sectors. This is why many firms have included the agile technique in their project management methods.
Benchmarking teams is tricky - it is too easy to amplify dysfunctional behaviour. It is also not easy to find a meaningful metric. This presentation describes an proven approach to concentrate on self assessment of capabilities.
Leadership Agility is the ability to rage effective action in complex rapid changing conditions. Team and organizational agility refer to the same set of capacities. Organizational agility is an ability for an organization to renew itself, adapt, change quickly, and succeed in a rapidly changing, ambiguous, turbulent environment. Agility is not incompatible with stability – agility requires stability.
Organizations striving to grow and sustain their success in these dynamic times often try to identify the characteristics in their executives that will propel the enterprise toward its potential. The prevailing thought goes something like this: we want greater organizational agility so what does that look like in our key people? Fair question, but not likely to lead them where they want to go.
The challenge is Organizational Agility is an outcome we can measure organizationally not a personal characteristic. The executives can do a number of things to increase the organization’s agility but they themselves don’t exhibit it.
Let's discuss all of these with Abiodun Osoba (International Lean/Agile Coach & Trainer for Enterprise Transformations)
How do we sell Agile to senior managers?- A talk by by Melanie Franklin for t...Natasha Hill
For those of us working with Agile, the benefits are obvious. We have already gone through the transition from waterfall to agile projects and strongly believe that agile is intuitively the right way to work.
But....not all of our stakeholders are in the same place. If we want our organisations to further adopt Agile we are going to have to persuade decision makers and those with authority and governance responsibilities that it's the best way to work.
This workshop helps to understand how to create the most effective messages to persuade non-Agile managers to become more Agile!
6 Questions to Ask Before Implementing Change in OrganizationsSlideShop.com
Dealing with organizational change can be stressful. To lessen the challenges that may be encountered during the transition, answer the 6 questions enumerated in this presentation.
If you know of change management tips that may help other people, feel free to add them in the comment section.
In Agile Transformation, C comes before A by Syed RiyazuddinAgile ME
Almost 19 years since Agile Manifesto was published, organizations are still struggling to adopt and mature Agile. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to Agile transformation strategy, but plenty of learning from other successful/ failed initiatives.
I will discuss one of the crucial prerequisites of Agile transformation, Cultural assessment, referring to some of the popular models, such as Schneider and Laloux. But most importantly which framework would be most suitable, mapping to cultural type of a department/organization. Not limiting to Scrum, or Kanban, but considering other methods such as Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps etc, to formulate one that aligns with organization's culture. At two levels, first Adoption and then Scale (Scale -up or -out).
Along the way, I will share insights from my experience, some use cases, from working across organizations of various sizes and shapes, and the factors that enabled success in their transformation journeys.
Switching on the agile light takes more than flickMike Burns
"There is a large difference between doing agile and being agile. Modern change management techniques suggest many ways of implementing a new organisational change such as agility. However, there are times when just doing it and making it the baseline means that you can kick-start the agile journey. This presentation will present some ideas on the things that you can enforce and the things that will take time."
Presented as part of the "Agile & DevOps Conference- LET’S SWITCH IT ON", held in Brisbane on the 31st of August 2018
https://www.knowledgehut.com/events/devops/agile-devops-conference-brisbane
My keynote a #TAFAC2019 on lessons learnt from #scaling #agile from a team to an organization and what are the factors behind a successful agile transformation
A talk by Tim Basadur and Ellen Moran PhD
Basadur Applied Innovation & Leadership Dialogues
Many companies are returning to a changed business context and need to quickly solve a range of new problems or reinvent their products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate. Many fewer recognize that achieving these creative results efficiently requires an effective process, specific skills and tools, and the right blend of thinking styles working in sync with one another. When any of these are lacking, teams may struggle to innovate. To help leaders, business owners and HR professionals engage these challenges, Ellen Moran and Tim Basadur will provide an introduction to the Simplexity Method for Applied Innovation which is designed to enable teams and organizations to achieve innovative results quickly.
Session Outcomes:
• Discover the necessary elements for innovative results – The Innovative Results Equation • Learn the four creative problem-solving preferences of team members and how their way of interacting can be a facilitator or roadblock for team innovation. • Understand the four-stage innovation process to move teams through problem-finding, problem-defining, problem solving and solution implementation in a way that drives strong team alignment and commitment. • Leave with practical tools and frameworks that can immediately boost creative collaboration where you work.
Watch REPLAY here:
https://leading-in-crisis.turnkeycoachingsolutions.com/talks/unleashing-the-creative-potential-of-your-teams/
**Leading in a Crisis Free Virtual Summit 40+ Speakers:**
https://leading-in-crisis.turnkeycoachingsolutions.com/
Becoming Agile: Agile Transitions in Practice - Rashina Hoda - AgileNZ 2017AgileNZ Conference
Agile adoption has been typically understood as a one-off organisational process involving a staged selection of Agile development practices. This does not account for the differences in the pace and effectiveness of individual teams transitioning to Agile development.
About Rashina Hoda:
Dr Rashina Hoda is an internationally renowned researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has 10+ years' experience studying Agile teams and is the author of 60+ publications on Agile self-organisation, project management, knowledge management, reflective practice, task allocation and more.
Rashina served as the Research Chair of the Agile India 2012 conference and recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at the flagship international conference on software engineering (ICSE2017) for her ‘grounded theory of becoming Agile’ that explains the multiple dimensions of Agile transitions in practice.
She created and teaches the Agile course at UoA in close collaboration with industry and loves to present the 'voice of Agile research' to industry and academia alike.
Unlocking business agility through agile leadershipBejoy Jaison
Bejoy Jaison's talk at Last Conference, Brisbane, 2017. Looks at microagility (team level) and macroagility (business level) to bring out how good agile leadership is essential to facilitate business agility.
Motivational and Agile Mindset- Best of Both WorldsAdvance Agility
Every minute of an average day is formed by its share of constant tasks and priorities, coupled with an ever-growing list of assignments. It can be difficult to acquire insight into the health of a project without a plan in place. This is where an agile mentality comes to work!
Though traditionally linked with software development teams, the agile technique is currently being used successfully by a wide range of sectors. This is why many firms have included the agile technique in their project management methods.
You probably had a tough time proving your worth as a true leader during the last appraisal interview. Or maybe you’re a focused professional who’s willing to brush up on the leadership management skills for a successful career graph ahead.
Overview and explanation of the 12 Principles contained in the Agile Manifesto.
For more - and a complete implementation of Agile for $1.90 - go to Agile201.com.
I am a big fan of Kotter’s, 8-Step Process for Leading Change. I have seen it applied, and the system works. It should be a must read for anyone who has, or will, experience some sort of (work) change.
This presentation outlines the 8-steps and key points in the process.
Lean Agile Mindset (Project Managment).pptxKnoldus Inc.
Lean-agile mindset is a way of thinking that emphasizes speed, flexibility, and customer focus. In this session we will go through combination of beliefs, attitudes, actions, and assumptions that are inspired by the agile manifesto and lean thinking.
Agile working is all about making decisions quickly, giving co-workers autonomy, and sharing knowledge. How can you maintain agility when you're not in a face-to-face setting, which is a crucial component of its success?
Agile teams are now more crucial than ever in the fast-paced environment we live in. Agile teams are able to easily respond to new needs and quickly adjust to changing circumstances. They become a significant asset in any business as a result.
TAKEON! IS A PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE THAT GETS PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER ON WHAT MATTERS MOST.
The results are immediate and measurable.
TakeON! resources and concepts are easily woven into existing practices.
You own it, you lead it, it’s your take on what matters to your business now.
Imagine people across your organisation coming together regularly, discussing what’s already working, what could be improved, and how they can contribute. Dozens of suggestions are generated and acted upon. The power comes not from a single silver-bullet idea, but in creating a culture of constant incremental change.
TakeON! enables these conversations at leader level or across your whole business. What’s more, it focuses them on the specific challenges that you face today. This creates quick wins that build confidence and momentum across the business.
If agile is so great, why do we constrain it to software projectsJohn McIntyre
Over the last 25 years, adoption of agile techniques and methods on software projects has become the norm. But despite the massive uptake of agile, why do we continue to constrain it to our software projects? In this presentation, delivered at PMIs PMO Symposium 2016 in San Diego, John explores how PMOs can take agility to the next level by successfully integrating agile methodology into their business processes and by helping other areas of the business become more agile.
Addressing Cultural Anti-patterns in Enterprise transformationsGautham Pallapa
Lean, Agile, and DevOps are being used as tools to drive enterprise transformations across several companies. The focus is usually on technology and less on culture as the driver to realizing their outcomes.
In this session, I present common cultural anti-patterns that I have observed while working with various enterprises and share approaches, experiments, and tips to overcome or reduce impact from these impediments, along with examples of validated learning and countermeasures
Leadership readiness initiatives aren’t working, so its time to RETHINK what we’ve been doing and focus on the practice of leadership acceleration.
Use these six acceleration imperatives that drive succession success to move your leaders in the direction to being ready now.
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
The Team Member and Guest Experience - Lead and Take Care of your restaurant team. They are the people closest to and delivering Hospitality to your paying Guests!
Make the call, and we can assist you.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
2. Outline
What does Agility actually means?
Why agility is essential?
Reflect agility on our life - Let us think about “Being
Agile than doing Agile”
How we are able to connect this with our work and life
?
“Agility in Project Management”
Reflect agility at our Work
3.
4. How do you define agility?
• Established businesses around the world and across a range of sectors are
striving to emulate the speed, dynamism, and customer centricity of digital
players.
• Agility is about flexibility and the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt and
steer itself in a new direction. “Consistently adaptable”
• The aim is to build stronger, more rounded professionals out of all our
people. Being agile is not just about changing the IT department or any other
function on its own.
• The key has been adhering to the “end-to-end principle” focused on solving
the client’s needs and united by a common definition of success.
• Being Agile also means how people deal with their knowledge complementing
with the knowledge of others.
5. Agility is not a purpose in itself; it is a
means to broader and grand vision
6. Is Agility only about practices?
• Not practices but being practical
• Is it about about coherence or collaboration? Its both
• Is it only for speed ? No its about both speed and stability ,
sustainability
9. What do you think/feel when you talk to a
5 yr old children?
10. Starting with “Why”
• Outcome based instead of “Output” based
• Empathize - Customer focused & outcome to the strategy and
vision
• ownership, empowerment, customer centricity
11. How do we request our peers to do
something?
Instruction on “To-Dos” -> Do we like it or hate it?
12. People orientation - “Increasing the
Meaning Quotient” of Work
• “Do this” “Why it is important to do this?” – Steering through context & Input
• Empowered teams and not just self-organized team -> What do you think can be
done?
• Handle knowledge rather than handling only people
13. Journey of our life in past 5-10
years?
• Agility: It rhymes with stability
• Both stable (resilient, reliable, and efficient) and dynamic (fast, nimble,
and adaptive).
• Balance the levers of Stability & Flexibility
15. "It is imperative to make adjustments quickly when things
are not working as planned.
One of the most important findings about successful
leaders of change is the simple fact that they tend to
be very timely in making decisions, solving
problems, removing roadblocks, and fighting the
tyranny of the urgent."
16. Handle Uncertainties
If it is uncertain, how am I prepared for it?
• Know the uncertainty that you are handling now and
• foresee the ambiguity you will face
• Don’t plan for it, rather outcome that you need despite those
17. How many learnt to drive without any
minor incidents or falling or hurting?
18. Capitalize on Mistakes
• Look back for mistakes to learn
• With experience and guidance, we discover that mistakes can, in
fact, often be turned around and transformed into a positive growth
experience.
• What do we do, then, when a mistake occurs? – handled in different way
provides a means to identify areas that need attention, improve skills,
deepen relationships
19.
20. Agility and the Smartphone:
Analogy
• The phone’s fxed hardware
platform and space for new
apps the agile
organization’s stable
backbone and dynamic
capability to add, abandon,
replace, and update “apps.”
• Together, these allow the
organization to respond
quickly to market changes.
(Being Agile)
Lets forget “What” and “How” and let us focus on “why” ?
Let us think about “Being Agile than doing Agile”
Agility in our life, thoughts and actions.
Are we Agile in our life?
“We all have been Agile, in our life, Just a deep thought to be agile in our Professional space”
Going Agile has been seen as a fix for many of these - but in fact that's a mistake.
No one cares that your development teams are Agile. They can plan and estimate and retro their hearts out, and it doesn't matter.The only thing that matters is Agility - the ability of the organization as a whole to tightly connect strategic decisions to delivery to customers ("tightly" means rapidly and accurately).
Going Agile has been seen as a fix for many of these - but in fact that's a mistake.
No one cares that your development teams are Agile. They can plan and estimate and retro their hearts out, and it doesn't matter.The only thing that matters is Agility - the ability of the organization as a whole to tightly connect strategic decisions to delivery to customers ("tightly" means rapidly and accurately).
Agile -> How many ppl wanted to do something but ended up doing something else as jobs?
Wanted to study something Eg:medicine to Engg
From organistion x to organisation y
From Employee to entrepeneur
How many changes that we would faced in life? (in last 5-10 years)
Shifted House
Shifted Location
Taken up different responsibilities and roles ( Married, Became parent)
Changes from Parent taking care of us to we taking care of parents
Asking them to come up with the items that they think
Recognize your patterns
We’ve long been interested in work environments that inspire exceptional levels of energy, increase self-confidence, and boost individual productivity.
By “meaning,” we and they imply a feeling that what’s happening really matters, that what’s being done has not been done before or that it will make a difference to others.
“meaning maker” is a critical role for corporate strategist
He observed that people fully employing their core capabilities to meet a goal or challenge created what he called “flow.” More important, he found that individuals who frequently experienced it were more productive and derived greater satisfaction from their work than those who didn’t. They set goals for themselves to increase their capabilities, thereby tapping into a seemingly limitless well of energy. And they expressed a willingness to repeat those activities in which they achieved flow even if they were not being paid to do so.
Acting Quickly
Swift decisions & focus back
both stable (resilient, reliable, and efficient) and dynamic (fast, nimble, and adaptive).
balancing this tension between stability and flexibility is critical: organizational structure, which defines how resources are distributed; governance, which dictates how decisions are made; and processes, which determine how things get done, including the management of performance.
How have been when we were responding to changes in our life ? Are we resisting it (or) Were we gng with the flow?
Agile -> How many ppl wanted to do something but ended up doing something else as jobs?
Wanted to study something Eg:medicine to Engg
From organisation x to organisation y
From Employee to entrepeneur
How many changes that we would faced in life? (in last 5-10 years)
Shifted House
Shifted Location
Taken up different responsibilities and roles ( Married, Became parent)
Changes from Parent taking care of us to we taking care of parents
Efficient responses.
When individuals resist change, the efficiency with which they can adapt is reduced because a part of their attention and time is spent moving away from the direction of progress. When we do not resist and, in fact, are highly adaptable, we can progress toward our goals faster and with fewer diversions.
Resistance creates organizational mental garbage that can build up and become a culture you don't want to combat.
Uncertainties in Life: How many changes that we would faced in life? (in last 5-10 years)
Shifted House
Shifted Location
Taken up different responsibilities and roles ( Married, Became parent)
Changes from Parent taking care of us to we taking care of parents
What next ? (in life)
Mapping to Project Management:
What do we do, then, when a mistake occurs? Are mistakes simply inevitable nuisances that must be accepted and endured?
With experience and guidance, we discover that mistakes can, in fact, often be turned around and transformed into a positive growth experiences. When properly handled, mistakes provide a means to identify areas that need attention, improve our skills, deepen our relationships, and open new avenues that may have otherwise remained hidden.
Discover how mistakes can be transformed into positive growth experiences. Learn how to use mistakes to identify ways to improve your skills, deepen your ability to collaborate, and reveal new opportunities for contributing to your career growth and your organization’s success.
When properly handled, mistakes provide a means to identify areas that need attention, improve our skills, deepen our relationships, and open new avenues that may have otherwise remained hidden.