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Explore our thought leadership articles that analyze current trends in leadership development, business agility, and change management. Stay ahead with expert perspectives geared towards executives and senior teams.
Operationalizing OKRs Using Hoshin Kanri
Does your organization struggle to turn strategy into measurable outcomes and translate them into daily operations? Do you have Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and goals that seem to repeat every year without ever fully being achieved? If so, it may be time to consider combining the OKRs with Hoshin Kanri to better align strategy with execution.
Mindset or State of Mind
In recent months, numerous articles have highlighted how organizations are reconsidering, or in some cases abandoning their Agile initiatives. Once perceived as a “silver bullet,” Agile is now viewed with increasing skepticism, largely because many companies have failed to realize the anticipated return on investment despite significant expenditures on mandatory trainings, Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and related roles. Some organizations, rather than abandoning Agile altogether, have attempted to sustain momentum by relocating Agile coaches and Scrum Masters into transformation or organizational effectiveness offices.
Doctorate Dissertation for Organizational Leadership
A Delphi Study on Strategic Behaviors from the Adaptive Leadership Framework Used
by Successful CXOs for Business Agility in a Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and
Ambiguity Environment.
University of Massachusetts Global
Irvine, California
Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership
March 2025
Buttered Cat paradox-a story of Agile Waterfall Hybrid
The phrase “We are Hybrid—Agile and Waterfall” is truly frustrating. It represents a fundamental misunderstanding—an attempt to compare apples and oranges. No matter how often I explain that Agile is a mindset, not a methodology, and that its principles can even be applied within a Waterfall environment, many still equate Agile solely with the ceremonies and practices of frameworks such as Scrum or SAFe.
The Transformation And The Plato’s Beard
Can you guess what Transformation failure, Plato’s Beard puzzle, and Dragons have in common? Despite the abundance of frameworks, experts, and investments, a large number of organizational transformations continue to fail. Why? leaders are often giving meaning to something that doesn’t meaningfully exists.
Do you have a hard time explaining leadership?
Do you have hard time explaining leadership? Use the example of water H2O. Water remains “Humble”, stays low, nurtures everything, and does not seek recognition or reward. It embodies “Harmony”, showing resilience and persistence when faced with obstacles finding ways to flow around them without force. Water is “Open” to adaption to its surroundings, changing state—solid, liquid, gas—with the temperature and assuming the shape of whatever contains it—be it a teapot, a cup, or a flower vase
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