Author: Manjunath Ingale

Reverse-Order Planning | Glossary

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Definition:

Reverse planning works first by legitimizing idealistic, ‘ridiculous’ ideas, and then gradually working back towards the feasible. This prevents ‘silly’ ideas being thrown away because you cannot see how they might be achieved.

If you plan forwards, there are many possible futures and it is easy to lose your way. If you start at what you want and work backwards towards now, then there are far fewer paths as you see what is required.

It is a proactive strategy aimed at preventing procrastination and helping to diminish those feelings of being overwhelmed.

Further Reading:

Book: Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott W. Ambler and Mark Lines

 

Connected Leadership | Book Series

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Overview:

Connected Leadership provides a clear, practical guide for leaders of organisations who wish to create a more connected, agile and customer-oriented organisation in a digitally connected, customer-driven 21stcentury business environment.

It lays out the key factors of the connected organisation and the leadership behaviours that will allow these factors to become embedded and sustainable.  It provides a range of case examples to demonstrate what this looks like in practice, complemented by a series of tools and techniques that leaders can use to diagnose their organisation’s current position and plot a successful course to achieve these more connected ways of working.

It is, at heart, a real-world guide to changing your leadership style and approach to align an organisation’s culture and values with those needed in a world where the prevailing models of command and control are so obviously failing.

Connected Leadership will show you how to:

  • Create a more agile organisation & respond swiftly to changing markets & customer needs
  • Cope with increasing market complexity & uncertainty
  • Build trust, reputation & become a more authentic leader
  • Develop a ‘connected leadership’ approach

Authors:

Simon Hayward

Published In:

17 November 2015