Here’s a post I did for SoftwareCPR on the shortcomings of viewing “agile” as just a routine process change:
Opportunities … lost
It has been a difficult time for many businesses.
Some will survive the crisis, some won’t.
Some have had a more difficult time than necessary. Some have closed for good.
Why?
Because of an inability to change with the changes.
Congratulations!
Your organization made needed changes to survive the crisis thus far. Changing to remain successful amid external change is a mark of organizational agility.
There is a crucial question to answer to remain successful.
How hard was it to make the changes? Was it harder than it should have been? If so, one of your tasks as a leader is make future change easier when (not if) the next crisis occurs or if a market opportunity appears.
You may be thinking “How can I make change easier? Change is hard!” Change can be hard. It can also be easy! See an earlier post about the nature of change.
Think of organizational agility like a form of organizational Parkour.
Waiting to get back to “normal”? Innovate forward instead of reverting backward!
The COVID-19 virus has radically changed day-to-day life for individuals, businesses, and governments around the world.
The daily question on everyone’s mind is “when do we get back to normal?” Organizations are asking “how do we prepare to get back to normal?”
These should not be the only questions for you as a leader.
Once you have safeguarded lives and stabilized operations, your priority is also to think about future improvement. Your key question should be the opposite of others who are focusing on “normal.” Your question is: “which of the changes we’ve made are worth keeping, and what further improvements can we make?”
This article helps you do that: to “innovate forward” rather than “revert backward.”
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Remote work: what to do when you don’t know what to do
Relentless change and complexity make success difficult. Radical events like the current pandemic make things worse.
Those conditions guarantee that we aren’t guaranteed to know what to do.
So what do you do if you don’t know what to do?
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Remote work – 4 reasons yours may fail … and what to do
Remote work isn’t just about getting the technology and logistics right for telecommuting.
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It changes the dynamics of human interaction and will magnify ineffectiveness of existing practices and management.
See my post on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-work-4-reasons-yours-fail-mike-russell for the 4 reasons and 4 solutions that you can implement now!