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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments. Money Policies to Manage Cash Flow. A lot of the friction we see is anti-agility. What about guidelines?

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Want Business Agility? Rethink Your Easy Career Ladders, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. These folks have to manage the organization's cash flow.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. By placing upper and lower bounds on price volatility, producers can count on a more certain cash flow. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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How Well Do Your Policies Create Desired Outcomes and Trust?

Johanna Rothman

If you don't manage your cash flow, a lack of cash will kill your business. The more we want an agile organization that might be able to bounce forward , the more we need to create an environment of thinking and trust. And, the more business agility we want, the fewer constraints we need. Why have policies anyway?

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. ” Milestone payments not only help you manage your cash flow, they are “also a tool for communication,” she says.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. The Plan-then-Do approach is obsolete – even dangerous.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

But they should also allow the acquisition of software technology to be determined by performance considerations and discounted-cash-flow calculations, not whether the acquisition fits within predetermined capital and operating budgets.

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