Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2022

A conversation about creating a healthy, effective culture of debate in the workplace.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

How to Optimize Team Potential: A 7-Step Guide for Managers High performing team managers optimize potential by unlocking their teams collective capability. In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments. Because they can divide and conquer their tasks.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

How to make a realistic selection Here are five (5) steps you can follow to ensure you are including a realistic selection of business schools for your MBA application. Look beyond rankings and consider factors such as curriculum, faculty, culture, location, and alumni network.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 30, 2021

The culture in your organization matters. The concept of organization culture is popular right now. ASs a result, many owners are thinking about a high-performance culture, and how to go about it. But how much of a difference does it really make and what can it do for your organization? In one word – yes.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? What Affects Employee Productivity? Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

“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.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

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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Effective Managers

JANUARY 14, 2021

With that in mind, we wanted to talk more about accountability and how you can create a culture of accountability at your organization. The Importance of Having a Culture of Accountability at Work. A culture of accountability can create positivity, engagement, and productivity among the workforce.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I believe it is impossible to have complete transparency with patients without first developing a strong culture of internal transparency — among all team members, at all levels, on all issues — throughout the health care organization itself. A culture of internal transparency does not come about overnight.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 4, 2021

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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

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.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here’s an overview of the main principles of this approach: Muda: aims to streamline project workflow by eliminating waste, e.g., overproduction, excess inventory, idle time, and product defects; Value Stream Mapping (VSM): visualizes the full process of value delivery (e.g., moving milestones, reallocating resources, etc.).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

When you join an organization, you have a short window of time to adapt to its culture. And we know too many talented individuals who have stumbled in their new company because they failed to read the cultural tea leaves. In our work, we have noticed five dimensions of culture that require your attention.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s also a growing talent shortage, making it even more difficult for organizations to avoid staffing shortages and maintain full productivity. Along with competitive compensation, a positive, supportive culture featuring a diverse workforce is increasingly viewed as essential. How to Keep Your Leadership Training Current.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. Not one person.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 25, 2022

Consequently, they are demanding better pay and work cultures. Take notes and watch Rick’s action-packed leadership video on how to keep employees. Also, check out this NEW learning packet: 7 Ways to Unleash Employee Motivation, Productivity and Engagement. . When these numbers are poor you lose potential great employees.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Effective Managers

AUGUST 12, 2021

Productivity is 21% HIGHER. Whether you are an owner, executive, director or front line manager, you need to work on creating a culture of accountability. That’s precisely why a culture of accountability truly matters. The post How to Increase Accountability in Your Organization appeared first on Effective Managers.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Manage your environment or culture. The post Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. That's a cultural change. ” There are many better ways.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Many companies are aiming to be more transparent and authentic about their products, services, and costs. Imagine, for example, being promised a culture of innovation only to have every new idea you put forward dismissed. Juj Winn/Getty Images. ” Assess the Gap. Cisco has proved that employee-generated content works.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2018

Working Across Cultures. To Lead Across Cultures, Focus on Hierarchy and Decision Making. How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures. Leading Across Cultures Requires Flexibility and Curiosity. You and Your Team Series. Erin Meyer. Tsedal Neeley. Deborah Rowland.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Until schools teach collaboration, most of the people in our industry need to learn how to collaborate.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Despite these clear benefits, however, most people tend to connect with others whose perspectives, backgrounds, and cultural norms are similar to their own. Throughout my career — on Wall Street, in technology venture capital, and in media production — I’ve fostered a professional network that spans industries.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. They outline the four key elements of this model and offer suggestions for whether, and how, to implement elements of it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? How Much Feedback Does Your Project Need? Too few organizations can do that.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

So how can you collaborate more productively with them? If you’re a perfectionist yourself, you’ll learn tips here for how you can create smoother, stronger working relationships. Find out how your perfectionist colleague prefers to receive feedback. Enhance Feelings of Security Through Mutual Influence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here are three principles I’ve found to be effective in staving off isolation, maintaining productivity, and surrounding oneself with a stimulating cadre of colleagues. How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home. How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation. You and Your Team Series. Remote Work. Rebecca Knight.

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LSA Global

MARCH 10, 2025

When a team aligns its goals and accountabilities , optimizes its work, and cultivates a culture of high performance , every team member is empowered and thrives. When teams embrace these core interaction skills, they enhance both individual and team productivity. Job Value 98.4% Satisfaction 96.4% Learn more about getting aligned.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a New Leader Training for Healthcare Managers. Job Relevance 98.6%

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

Here’s my advice for how to fix them. It’s astounding how badly most leadership teams use their time together. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. At their worst, they set an example that some of the worst habits will be tolerated — and perhaps even rewarded. Focus scattered priorities.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2023

As a result of this generational shift in workplace culture, consulting firms are under pressure to adapt by improving work arrangements for employees. A change in the culture of the sector could help to enhance the work environment, encourage employee loyalty, and enable hiring managers to attract top talent.

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