Team Health Monitors and Why Your Teams Needs a check-up
From the article: Drawing from his talk at First Round’s CEO Summit, Simons outlines the eight traits of successful teams, determined after an studying hundreds of Atlassian teams across departments. He lays out the six-step process that’ll help teams of any kind, at any size company understand where they might need improvement. Lastly, Simons shares examples of how Atlassian teams have made adjustments to their processes after assessing their performance with the help of a health monitor.
7 minute read, and I would highly recommend you do read it, probably one of the best reads about teams and managing projects. The article gives you some ideas as to what you could change tomorrow at work! ^ADJ
BCG on Digital Disruption
DIGITAL DISRUPTION IS not a new phenomenon. But the opportunities and risks it presents shift over time. Competitive advantage flows to the businesses that see and act on those shifts first. We are entering the third, and most consequential, wave of digital disruption. It has profound implications not only for strategy but also for the structures of companies and industries. Business leaders need a new map to guide them. This article explains the factors underlying these disruptive waves, outlines the new strategic issues they raise, and describes a portfolio of new strategic moves that business leaders need to master.
Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It
The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning.
Getting to the Critical Few Behaviors That Can Drive Cultural Change
Focusing on a “critical few” behaviors is one of the fundamental tenets of working effectively with organizational culture. Sometimes called keystone behaviors, these are patterns of acting that are tangible, repeatable, observable, and measurable, and will contribute to achieving an organization’s strategic and operational objectives. The behaviors are critical because they will have a significant impact on business performance when exhibited by large numbers of people; they are few because people can really only remember and change three to five key behaviors at one time.