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

Johanna Rothman

What about guidelines? Consider removing policies and procedures and create guidelines and constraints instead. ” Trina's questions prompted the senior managers to consider those guidelines and constraints. The company did have a specific guideline: they wanted everyone to take at least two weeks of vacation a year.

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See and Resolve Team Dependencies, Part 1: Inside the Team

Johanna Rothman

Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? You might even have a guideline that any code over two days old gets a code review, because the person working on that code might not realize they're confused. Some Choices for Inside the Team Dependencies.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

Cindy also has to create guidelines and constraints for the teams. Some of her guidelines and constraints are: Make sure that what you do is auditable. Notice that Cindy doesn't create guidelines for how teams should work. Some people are more connected, some less so. Cindy operates in a regulated industry.).

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Creating a Culture of Reliability in the Workplace

Nash Consulting

Creating a Culture of Reliability in the Workplace [Do you prefer to learn with your ears instead of your eyes? If you have an entire work team (or workplace) that has a generally low level of follow through, you will inevitably have a low-trust culture. That’s what will make the culture of reliability actually work.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 5: Summary

Johanna Rothman

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Leadership Tip 17: Consciously Choose How You Optimize the Salary Money

Johanna Rothman

If you don't know about congruence, how we balance the self, other, and context, please read Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture.). See the Flow Efficiency series to see why that's nuts for collaborative teams.) Money decisions reflect your culture. They think that fairness is part of their culture.