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Never go "back" to work; go forward to work

Never go "back" to work; go forward to work

At the peak of the pandemic, businesses and leaders saw it as a huge inflection point, a great opportunity for individuals to redefine strategies, workplaces, teams, and social contracts. But what they are afraid of is that, after this great opportunity, people will crawl out of the rubble and go back to old ways of working that frankly, hadn’t been working for us for decades.

This time is your opportunity to learn from your peers. This is your opportunity to open up your curiosity, and make sure that you, your team, and your organization never goes back to work, but only goes forward.

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Move from "Crisis agile" to agile as your primary operating system

Today, we have to negotiate very clear outcomes-based weekly sprints of our work.

What are each of us and each of our teams going to do this week? And then you allow empowerment during that week to achieve as much as they can achieve. And then a standup at the end of the week determines...

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Resilience is a team sport

In the olden days, mental and physical well-being were dealt with as individuals, sometimes shamefully in the shadows.

But at the peak of the pandemic, we saw more vulnerability. We saw more openness. And with that, we saw more bonding and team cohesiveness.

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Collaboration starts before the meeting

There were two myths of collaboration prior to the pandemic. One myth was that all collaboration starts with a meeting. And the other was that the more people you get involved in collaboration, the slower the decision-making. But that is just not true.

In fact, we can utilize simpl...

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Foresight is crowdsourced

Add a five-minute agenda item to your team meeting - the “foresight five minutes.” Before a meeting, everybody has been designated to come to that five minutes with a distinct way of looking at the world.

One individual or group is looking at the world relative to competitive threats. A...

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