Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

I had the pleasure of being on the Agile Uprising Podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. How trust, empathy, and creating a safe environment are what allows us to use agile approaches. See the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. How servant leaders support people taking responsibility.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

I like agile approaches because I can separate lots of deliverables into small, coherent pieces. When I want to deliver books, I need a team to create a final delivery. In fact, agile approaches make this kind of culture possible. This is a part of the series of leadership tips. Focus on job satisfaction. What we reward.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Don, a CIO, attempted to “install” a common agile framework. Meeting with senior leadership helped Don learn as part of a team. That's why asking for help is a sign of strength and leadership. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

I had great fun with Cherie Silas and Alex Kudinov on their podcast, “Keeping Agile Non-Denominational.” You've seen or heard about this problem: Senior leadership says, “Yes we need agility!” ” The teams say, “Yes, we got the agile goodness here!” ” And the middle managers?

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Sally Helgesen writes that this year's best business books on leadership hammer home the importance of such human values as flexibility, humility, and courage. Sam Walker's The Captain Class describes the ways athletic success rests on team captains, whose leadership capabilities are as impressive as their athletic capabilities.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Manage for effectiveness.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. Why I don't always subscribe to the idea of intent-based leadership. The post Enjoy an Agile Coffee About Modern Management appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I Yes, there are 8 parts!).

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Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

Whether for blog posts, podcast episodes, lead magnets, or thought leadership assets, this tool supercharged my IP creation in record time. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. It will shift your approach to content creation—and the results? This isn’t theory.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored. Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can apply lean and agile thinking to management actions—especially decisions. We discussed many ideas about agile management in the podcast: You can count “done” things (as opposed to estimating from the requirements up), both to understand a team's capacity and for the project portfolio.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? You will also have time to think.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2017

I have a new book in beta, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. I’m so excited about this book. Agile approaches create more opportunities for jelled, performing teams. And, many teams find agile approaches tease them farther apart, not together.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. We have senior leadership teams. I showed Bob this picture from Book 3: Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization , and he said, “Yes! Let’s not restrict agile teams to product or feature teams. Check out Book 3 if you want to know more.).

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization. That will help everyone avoid bounce-back to non-agile approaches. Then do join us.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Dealing effectively with emotions is a key leadership skill. If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.) Marion Barraud for HBR. And naming our emotions — what psychologists call labeling — is an important first step in dealing with them effectively.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” ” The app can tell them if they are running light on bookings, and soon they’ll be able to activate marketing campaigns to increase same day reservations.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. Manage for effectiveness.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). To act on this opportunity, the company encouraged each employee, on a volunteer basis, to make his or her “unique contribution” to improving the agility of the supply chain.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Integrating mindfulness into core talent processes such as onboarding, manager training, performance conversations and leadership development is also critical, though most organizations are not yet at this stage of adoption. Develop mental agility.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Innovation BOOK. Transformation-capable teams are made up of people who are not only high performers, but who hold a unique balance of skills and mindsets that allow them to sustain focus, agility, and optimism in the face of uncertainty for prolonged periods of time. Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. This positive mindset is an essential starting point. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Making matters more challenging, these shifts are happening across practically every retail category – books, entertainment, housewares, clothing, food, financial services, and even energy. More retail purchases are moving online, and a growing number of manufacturers now sell to consumers directly, cutting out retailers entirely.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I'm thrilled to say he did that with the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. As part of our discussion about the Modern Management Made Easy books, we spoke about: Congruence. How we might want to say, “serving” leadership instead of “servant” leadership.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility. Its more than 2,000 employees are organized into agile teams, called squads, which are self-organizing, cross-functional, and colocated. Other areas, however, may benefit from standardized approaches.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2020

As I complete the Modern Management Made Easy books, I realize I need to explain how much tolerance an organization has for experiments. If you're working on a culture change such as an agile transformation, see if you can understand what the organization rewards. That might be your first step to creating a more agile culture.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't. I addressed this particular issue in books 2 and 3. Once you discuss the problem with the person, discuss the problem with the team. Explain that you made a mistake. First, they are rare.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It’s wide-ranging from thinking about agile approaches as a way to improve organizational flow and what that means for us as humans. We had a wide-ranging discussion, about my fiction writing, my books, how agile approaches affect the organization and how people can think differently when the teams and managers use agile approaches.

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