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Setting Up a Virtual Office for Remote Teams

Adopting a virtual office model saves a business $11,000+ annually per employee. It’s also one of the best answers to employees’ growing demands for mobility. Whether you’re considering a virtual office environment for several employees or a whole team, implement these strategies to ensure managers’ peace of mind and the top productivity of remote workers.

Angela Yurchenko
on Feb 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

Using OKRs to Build Autonomous Impact Teams

To focus on outcomes rather than outputs, Meilleurs Agents uses the Objective and Key Results framework to align the whole company on what they want to achieve. Christopher Parola and Nicolas Baron gave a presentation at FlowCon France 2019 where they showed how they implemented the OKR method and turned their product and tech teams into impact teams.

Ben Linders Christopher Parola Nicolas Baron
on Jan 31, 2020
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A on the Book The Innovation Revelation

David Lowe has written the book The Innovation Revelation: A story about satisfying customer needs. The book tells the fictional story of Charlie Blades who is a manager in the IT department of a retail company in London, faced with disruption from outside and old ways of working inside. The story explores how changes in workplace culture and practices can result in better outcomes.

David Lowe Shane Hastie
on Jan 25, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Testing Business Ideas

The book Testing Business Ideas by David Bland and Alex Osterwalder provides experiments that can be used to find out if your product ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. Experimentation also helps to reduce the risk and increase the likelihood of success of new venture or business projects.

Ben Linders David Bland Alex Osterwalder
on Jan 22, 2020
Development

Book Review: Developer, Advocate!

Developer, Advocate! is a set of interviews with prominent technologists, covering what drives their interest and enthusiasm in the industry. The brevity of each interview provides direct information and insight that can be read separately at any time, in any order, enabling those with busy schedules to read, put down, and repeat.

Erik Costlow Geertjan Wielenga Jennifer Reif
on Jan 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Quantum Leadership

The book Quantum Leadership by Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo brings to light the power of direct-intuitive practices – such as meditation, nature immersion, art, and exercise – to transform a leader’s consciousness to the highest point of leverage for entrepreneurial creativity that embeds social purpose.

Ben Linders Frederick Chavalit Tsao Chris Laszlo
on Jan 13, 2020
Culture & Methods

How Structure, Process, and Rules Make People Free

There is a widespread belief that rules, structure and processes inhibit freedom and that organizations that want to build a culture of autonomy and performance need to avoid them like the plague. In this article, we want to debunk that myth. Nurturing a culture of freedom and responsibility at scale is an organizational design problem

Stephen Bungay Antoine Merour
on Dec 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Great People Deserve Great Managers: Managers Effectiveness Index at Kronos Incorporated

Kronos transformed their managers’ capability by introducing a Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), which consists of codifying the role of managers and measuring their effectiveness. The company turned their employees’ performance process upside down by asking their employees to rate their managers’ performance and effectiveness twice a year.

Shaaron A Alvares David Almeda
on Dec 08, 2019
DevOps

Did You Forget the Ops in DevOps?

Kris Buytaert, a DevOps pioneer, takes us through his journey in the last 10 years of helping organizations go through the adoption hype cycle and sorting out misunderstandings in their transformations.

Kris Buytaert
on Nov 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Change-Friendly Leadership

Friendliness is the core denominator for active and willful participation of people when being affected by change, according to Rodger Dean Duncan. In his book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP, he explores how to effectively lead and manage change, transition, and implementation issues in organizations.

Ben Linders Rodger Dean Duncan
on Nov 07, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Leadership Toolkit

Agile leadership is the art and craft of creating the right environment for self-managing teams. The book Agile Leadership Toolkit by Peter Koning is a practical book that supports existing agile managers and leaders in growing their agile teams and creating the right environment for them.

Ben Linders Peter Koning
on Nov 05, 2019
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud as Catalysts for Business Performance

The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps presents the capabilities and practices that contribute to software development and organizational performance. This year, DevOps has crossed the chiasm, while a well-implemented cloud computing strategy helps deliver superior results contributing to speed, stability, and availability.

Shaaron A Alvares Nicole Forsgren
on Oct 30, 2019