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Agile Leadership for Startups: Evolving Growth with Flexibility and Vision

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In such situations, agile leadership provides a valuable differentiator. Agile leadership, which considers itself flexible, collaborative, and value-driven, plays a perfect role in the very special needs of startups. Agile leadership is perfect for such an environment where flexibility supersedes rigid planning.

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Rethinking Success: Lessons for Leadership and Business

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This fact serves as a compelling metaphor for the world of business and leadership. And there are simple leadership tools and frameworks that can help us lead differently and make better business decisions. 1 - Paddling: In a business and leadership context, paddling represents the foundational work that sets the stage for success.

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7 Ways Project Manager Roles Are Changing

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Project leadership is in flux and a good manager knows never to become complacent. Software innovation has also impacted the role of project managers with task automation and workflow automation that can automate task dependencies, approvals and notifications, streamlining workflows. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference!

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There's more to Organizational Agility than the Scrum Guide

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While the guide hints at the need for organizational changes that support Agility, these changes are not described by the Scrum guide. That's because the organization needs to figure out how to best use Agility within their unique environment. It's not enough to just say, "Yes, let's be Agile".

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

Innovation is both a process and an outcome. The best way to begin innovating your products is by innovating your internal process. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team: Tools and Strategies

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Usually, a cross-functional team is created to spark innovation, break bureaucratic boundaries and reduce production cycle times by granting a more collaborative environment. This creative approach can lead to innovation, which can be a substantial market advantage over the competition. Cross-functional agile teams are common.

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Increasing the Agility of Biotech Companies by Tuning their Scrum

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They contacted me because they felt Scrum could help them increase their agility to the level they were looking for. It allowed leadership and the teams to take unexpected and unanticipated decisions during development. Looking back, this was absolutely crucial to successfully develop a new and innovative battery product.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. Register today! 📅 October 16, 2024 at 9:30am PT, 12:30pm ET, 5:30pm GT

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.