Jeff Zucker, president & CEO of NBC Universal, and Geraldine Laybourne, chmn. & CEO of Oxygen Media, discuss the acquisition…

As an executive in an acquired company I have agile principles to guide my actions:

• Embrace change
• Collaborate with the customer
• Deliver value
• Remove impediments

My career has included consolidation, closure, re-organizations, relocations, down-sizings and three acquisitions. In fact, none of my former employers exist as the same entity for which I started working.

Opportunities gird themselves in risk. Game on.

My management mission has not changed.

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Tag(s): CEO, Geraldine Laybourne, NBC Universal, Oxygen Jeff Zucker, Oxygen Media, president & CEO

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My colleague, Wendy, posted a quote from our former CEO describing the benefit she gained from collaborating in an Agile environment.

The way to win over an entrepreneur is to out-perform expectations set from painful, past experience.

Before Scrum/XP

…six months later, they deliver what the assignment was. And you look at it and say, “Oh no, that’s not what I wanted.”

With Scrum/XP

…you work on a two-week cycle… You agree on what the priorities are in the meeting. You review the priorities. You evaluate where you are, and you move to the next step…

Short link: http://jkat.me/eaolQr

Tag(s): agile, CEO, entrepreneur, Geraldine Laybourne, Wendy, xp

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