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Pete Behrens
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The following topics are relevant readings from the web...
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The cost of team shuffling
One of the most common focal points of my “agile coaching” has very little to do with agility and everything to do with enabling a high-performing team environments - stabilizing and focusing teams.
Bob Sutton discusses this concept of breaking-up teams constantly as one of the dumbest practices used by U.S. Companies - I agree! For [...]
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7 Agile Leadership Lessons for the Suits
CIO Magazine’s Eugene Nizker highlights a number of Agile 2009 sessions focused on Agile Leadership this year.Clipped from mobile.cio.com7 Agile Leadership Lessons for the SuitsCIO Eugene Nizker attended this year’s Agile conference and returned with several suggestions for CIOs, IT managers and programming team leaders.
By Eugene Nizker
September 04, 20081. Trust the Wisdom of Teams2. [...]
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Leading the Learning Organization
Revisiting the leader’s role in designing, stewarding and teaching a learning organization which can more easily respond to change and grow in highly-dynamic markets - or otherwise - organizational agility.
A leader as designer takes the systems view, evaluating the organizational framework and structures underlying behaviors and actions. Moving from single-loop learning (reacting to behaviors and [...]
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Generalization vs. Specialization
Ants were once thought to be specialists - being born with DNA set up for a specific chore in the ant colony. Recently, however, researchers have discovered that ants are actually generalists and can perform any task in the colony. However, they typically perform one task at a time to increase efficiency through less task [...]
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