A few months ago, I wrote an article on how individuals learn (check here: Determine the right way to improve learning). Organisations are not different from us, subject to the same rules. Organisations have to develop, change, learn, and sometimes pivot to stay competitive. At some point in time, each organisation should become a learning organisation. However, very few organisations are trying to learn and try new things.
What is the reason behind that? How to change
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The topic of ownership and contribution’s to other people’s or team’s work ignites everyone over and over again. Especially now, when “Agile” is in the mainstream and concepts like “ownership”, “collaboration” and “commitment” has become the main topics in many companies as strongly connected with people, their autonomy and independence.
How to make sure the work is done and people’s ownership is protected? Let’s check how to contribute to other’s work and
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A few years ago, Harvard Business Review pointed out micromanagement as one of the top sources of problems and sins in managing organisations. It may significantly impact the team’s productivity and morale from within and suffocating its ability to grow. A healthy organisation is no place for such behaviour, but till now, it didn’t disappear. Some managers are still going back to this habit when they are, i.e. under tremendous stress.
Let’s look at this behaviour and
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Complex problems defy easy solutions. It is hard to predict the outcome of our actions, so it is vital to measure our actions and adapt to the situation based on the feedback. To keep our goals at pace, they have to be quantitative first. To do that in the business environment, I normally use the OKR approach. This time, I would like to use it for my personal goals as
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The agile coach is all about Agile. Agile is the reason we do what we do. Agile is a philosophy which appreciates its own set of values and follows its own principles. It is a mindset.
Agile is not just something we do. Agile is not a method, methodology, nor framework. It is not a set of processes and practices.