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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.

Meeting 143
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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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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.

Study 134
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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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Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?

Harvard Business

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

Exercises 134
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How to Help Your Team Manage Grunt Work

Harvard Business

Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. Time management is a skill that many need help to learn, and as a manager, you may need to be the teacher. Expect some pushback — an employee is likely to say that they can’t complete X task in half the time. Whitney Johnson.

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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.