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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

“Managed” one person who actually taught me how to be a manager. I learned how to collaborate differently, increase my learning, and how to influence at various levels. When people learn more, they become more valuable to their team, the project, the product, and the company. Third job: tester.

Agile 132
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Less Marketing, More Consulting — How To Win Projects Within Your Network with Stuart Friedman: Podcast #19

Consulting Success

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Never neglect your network!

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Healthy Organizational Cultures Focus on Humanity and Connection (Not Your Whole Self)

Johanna Rothman

You might have heard about the Basecamp culture changes last week. I’m sure you heard about Google’s culture problems several years ago. These problems are issues of culture: specifically what we can and cannot discuss. Big product issues: Why we are working on this project at this time. The purpose of this product.

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6 Steps to Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace

Speaker: Jennifer Fairweather, CHRO for Jefferson County, Educator, and Speaker & Keren Wasserman, Organizational Effectiveness Program Manager at Lyra Health

This makes it more important than ever to create a work culture where people can acknowledge their struggles and ask for help. As organizations adopt hybrid and remote work capabilities, it is critical for leaders to figure out how to provide the same level of support to dispersed teams as they did to in-office workers.

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3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive

Harvard Business

Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures.

Culture 101
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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

I don't know how to offer the level of predictability they want for large and unchanging work. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. In addition, you might need these product strategies too: Product architecture, to shepherd the technical value of a product.