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We have a new leadership approach to focus on completing the transformation successfully. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-1320x743.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/salomons.coach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CBA74132-B5DD-454B-B4F2-242B9E64DC6B.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People feel top management is not aligned and in many cases do not have a serieus intention to work agile personally. How to set your own organsation up for failure&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team alignnent works, alignment between teams doesn\u2019t. Teams chase only their team goals, not the organisations\u2019s ones. Consequence is suboptimisation.  Performance and results go down the drain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees and managers feel worried, try to avoid &#8211; what they think is the next hype &#8211; wait till it gets over&#8230; Nothing gets done, no can-do mentallity, simply because people, incl. managers don\u2019t believe. But what about the facts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we proudly announced Leadership 360 and ITDS are launching \u201cAgile Leadership\u201d, making Agile work after the hype. Learn from 20+ organisation\u2019s failures and successes with transforming to agile working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">drop me an email if you are interested <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/info@xl-growth.com\">info@xl-growth.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we launched our newly developed leadership development programme, \u201cmaking agile work\u201d. Agile organisations struggle a lot, we have spoken to more than 20 large organisations in the Netherlands and can only conclude: we are not even half way there. 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