Clifford Berg 10/25/24 Clifford Berg 10/25/24

Everyone Needs to Be a Leader. Now What?

Clifford Berg 10/22/24 Clifford Berg 10/22/24

Use a Capability-Focused Approach — Not an Agile Framework

Clifford Berg 10/15/24 Clifford Berg 10/15/24

Why Team Performance Is the Wrong Thing to Focus On

Clifford Berg 8/16/24 Clifford Berg 8/16/24

Software Engineering Should Run Like a Well Oiled Machine

Clifford Berg 7/23/24 Clifford Berg 7/23/24

Agility Is Now the Most Important Leadership Trait

Cliff Berg 5/21/24 Cliff Berg 5/21/24

Why AI Makes Agility a Strategic Imperative

AI and the increasing complexity of business make agility a strategic imperative. It’s no longer about “Agile teams” and software: it’s about the DNA of your business. And things will rapidly become even more difficult to predict. But this presents opportunities - the most agile (in a true sense) will flourish.

Clifford Berg 4/24/24 Clifford Berg 4/24/24

Some Leadership Lessons I Learned In My First Startup

My first company grew from 2 to 200 people in five years. I learned a lot in those years - about leadership in particular. Here are some things I learned.

Clifford Berg 4/2/24 Clifford Berg 4/2/24

Free Test Drive

Test drive our breakthrough curriculum and agility+effectiveness system for free. Sign up for module 1 and then select a group. We’ll run the workshops. We’ll help you to connect the dashboard metrics to savings and improved competitiveness. No obligation.

Clifford Berg 3/29/24 Clifford Berg 3/29/24

Why Most Leadership Training Is Not Effective for Product Companies – Sequel

The curriculum of a leadership program from a major university demonstrates my point, that most leadership programs do not address the things that matter to most organizations, if one considers leaders at all levels.

Clifford Berg 3/8/24 Clifford Berg 3/8/24

Imagine That It Takes Only Weeks to Pivot Strategy

What has changed today is that we now have highly agile and market-dominating companies as models. Instead of following “Agile methods”, we can look at what those companies have done.

Clifford Berg 2/23/24 Clifford Berg 2/23/24

Do You Have These Issues In Your Organization?

The top five project management issues that we hear about are also about a strategic issue, and all are behavioral.

Clifford Berg 12/15/23 Clifford Berg 12/15/23

Getting Out of “Agile”– and Finding True Agility

How to move on from “Agile”, increase actual agility, and provide a useful job path for all those “Agile” roles.

Clifford Berg 12/12/23 Clifford Berg 12/12/23

2023 Year End Message

So much has happened this year — and we have helped organizations to achieve true change! Next year promises to be the year that agility becomes powered by AI.

Clifford Berg 12/3/23 Clifford Berg 12/3/23

AI Will Kill Offshoring

Offshoring is inconvenient to say the least, and is based on the premise that offshore resources are multiples cheaper than local resources. But AI is changing the equation — fast.

Clifford Berg 11/29/23 Clifford Berg 11/29/23

How to Prepare for Tomorrow's AI

When AI becomes as capable as people, what will the economic transition be like? And how will businesses be affected? This article explores that question.

Clifford Berg 11/18/23 Clifford Berg 11/18/23

The Dilemma of Elon Musk

Elon Musk presents as dilemma. His companies are among the most agile in the world. But he often makes public statements that make us embarrassed to refer to his companies. Yet, those companies are so successful and agile that we cannot ignore them.

Clifford Berg 10/22/23 Clifford Berg 10/22/23

Why Most Leadership Training Is Not Effective for Product Companies

Today’s leadership programs cover important topics, but fall far short of what is needed to be successful in a fast-moving and complex world.

Clifford Berg 10/12/23 Clifford Berg 10/12/23

Are Your People Frantic?

Are people under so much delivery pressure that they don’t have time to even think about how to improve things?

Clifford Berg 10/1/23 Clifford Berg 10/1/23

Announcing the Constructive Agility System!

The first system designed to inexorably improve organizational agility.

Clifford Berg 5/11/23 Clifford Berg 5/11/23

Digital Transformation Was Yesterday’s Adventure

It is late in the game to be focused on digital transformation. Digital operation is needed to make AI use possible, and AI is the new frontier.

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