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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration. This not only provides structure but also ensures that the meeting stays focused and on track.

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Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility

Johanna Rothman

The organization lives with many delays when the managers choose a shared services model. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. They don't realize how much more effective flow efficiency is.). They're wasting time, which costs much more than the salary costs. In any culture or lifecycle.

Agile 119
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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ?

Agile 69
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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

(See Modern Management Made Easy Book 3 for specific ways to deal with individual manager goals.). If you reward the managers as a team, you'll get shorter decision times (management cycle time) and shorter team cycle times. If you want to create an agile culture, start with the managers.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Also, do it yourself.

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Small Business Problems and How to Overcome Them

Business Consulting Agency

Embrace technology to improve efficiency and customer engagement, such as adopting e-commerce platforms or integrating chatbots for customer support. Time Management and Productivity Small business owners often juggle multiple roles, which can lead to inefficiencies and burnout.

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

Culture 57