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What Really Is a Servant Leader?

Scrum.org

Servant leadership is about collaboration, trust, empathy, and the ethical use of influence. At the heart of it is the desire to serve people first, with leadership emerging as a by-product of service. They promote a work-life balanced and psychologically safe environment, ensuring team resilience and sustained productivity.

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What does it take to make an Agile transformation sustain?

Scrum.org

My core activity is coaching focused on Agility, i.e. influencing people to move towards (a (higher) state of) Agile. Influencing and teaching to align people on the new goal helps, but it’s not enough. In other words: An Agile transformation is a success when it sustains. These changes hardly ever sustain.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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Sunsetting Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. You may notice that the leadership ignores your meeting requests. Alternatively, there are meetings, but no decisions are made, or tackling actions-items is postponed.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

HBR reports some very obvious ideas for how to make your team more productive like: Clarifying expectations Setting a good example Making meetings shorter. Don’t just make meetings shorter, cancel them. Cancel one meeting a week and see what suffers. In fact, rethink meetings totally. Probably nothing.

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21st Century Leadership - Prologue

Scrum.org

A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. The conversations strongly influenced what the reader will see in the coming posts in this blog series. 21st-century executive leadership, what to stop doing .

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Framing Transformation Strategy from a Learning Perspective: A Shift from Assertion

Scrum.org

Integrating a learning perspective shifts our approach, opening doors to more agile, responsive, and sustainable change initiatives. It is a continuous, dynamic process that profoundly influences decision-making and strategy formulation. Setting leadership’s role in learning. What Is Transformation Strategy?