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Recharge to Reach the Finish Line: A Leader’s End-of-Year Strategy

The IIL Blog

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. Just as the runner needs to rest to prevent injuries, we, as leaders, need to champion moments of respite to sustain our teams and ourselves. Sign up here!

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Building Trust via Trustworthiness

Leading Agile

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. Instead of firing us, six months after I walked into that conference room, the VP hired 5 additional coaches to stand up more Agile portfolios! . Teams don’t keep a regular cadence of collaboration and review.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

We take pride in being fearless, adaptive, sustainable, and egalitarian, and we admire attributes like integrity, respect, teamwork, and passion for continued learning. . The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? And the cool thing about Version One is like, any talk, any conference I can get accepted to, they let me go speak and I was off speaking. There’s a third system we call, system and continuous improvement, which is, how are you going to sustain it and continuously adapt it?

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. – So what was fascinating about some of mine and yours early work together, I remember sitting in front of your whiteboard in your conference room, and we’re like talking about Lean and different things.

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Episode 189 – Harmonizing Potential – The Jazz of High-Performing Project Teams

Velociteach

A Cadence to Managing Projects BILL YATES: Okay. There’s a cadence. There’s a cadence. They’re going to conferences. We have got to hit a rhythm that’s sustainable, that includes breaks, chances to refresh, to your point for today’s schedule. And you have to move and adjust. Well, that’s like playing jazz.

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Selling Agile to the C-Suite to Get Buy-In

Leading Agile

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Organizations need to move at market speeds sustainably, and that pace is getting faster and faster. But that’s probably not true, right? So what can we agree on?

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