Agile Leadership

Explores Agile leadership, key approaches, challenges, and paths for managers to enable adaptability, innovation, and business-wide agility.

What typical culture issues slow down an Agile transformation and how can we measure, identify and solve these culture problems?

Wicked Problem

Playing sports can be filled with emotions. Athletes might feel nervous about try-outs or before a big competition, upset about losing or performing poorly, or excited and happy after a big win or a major accomplishment. To perform well in sport, athletes can learn to manage their emotions and cope with stress. However, some emotion regulation and coping strategies might be more useful than others. So, how can athletes learn to deal with their emotions and cope with stress in sport? In this article, we review what emotions are and how they influence athletes’ thoughts and behaviors in sport, as well as their impact on sport performance. We also review types of coping strategies that athletes can use to deal with stress and emotions in sport, and we explore ways that athletes can learn to develop better coping skills for sport performance.

The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal In this Great Courses video course/audiobook, Professor Freeman teaches you how to approach all phases of a negotiation, from simple day-to-day transactions to life changing matters; from simple conflicts with family members to job negotiations; from buying a car to negotiating multi-million dollar aircraft deals

Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which an individual interacts with others with the aim of achieving authority rather than power.

Trust between the deliverer and receiver is a necessity when delivering projects using agile project management. Referring to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, people interaction, collaboration and, willingness to change, are fundamental in agile project management. But is this possible if an assignment, agreement, or firm contract is not written on the basis of trust? This paper discusses how embracing agile methods of working means you embrace uncertainty. It recommends trusting people instead of trying to control uncertainty. It identifies the three dimensions of trust. It then presents two cases in which the same consulting company delivered software to different customers, with two completely different outcomes, even though the projects were led by the same project manager and scrum master. The biggest differences shown in both projects are the project initiation and customer interaction. The conclusion is that the trust built in one of the projects made it a huge success, whereas the other p

Empowerment with Boundaries and Clarity

A fascinating recent WSJ piece titled, “How and Why to Ban the Silent Treatment from Your Relationship,” offered tantalizing keys to saving a relationship, but it left out a powerful way to practice those keys.Fortunately […]

Practically everything we do in life involves negotiation. Many important issues—the political future of nations, the scope of business, the purchase of a house—hinge on negotiation. But negotiation is also an integral part of our everyday lives, whether you are resolving a quarrel, creating a family budget, or simply deciding...

Changing the working world, one day at a time. In these times of a competitive employment market, companies are looking at how keep and nurture the best, and 'time' itself, could be the best currency.

In 1960, Douglas MacGregor, a student of Abraham Maslow, introduced the management concept of Theory X and Theory Y (Rice University, N.D.). They are essentially different approaches to management.…

Create harmony between agile and your team’s culture.

What is meant by Agile Leadership, what are the benefits of a more agile leadership style and which competencies does an Agile Leader need?

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I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth putting your best in, and I’m also sure you’ve

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Policy Sciences - The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, becuase of the nature of these problems. They are “wicked” problems,...