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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

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. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. One eagle-eyed fellow asked me this question, “How long was the time from T0 to T1?” ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .”

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How To Grow & Sell Your Consulting Business Using Systems (Without Working 24/7) with Shannon Susko: Podcast #231

Consulting Success

Balancing strategy, execution, cash, cultural, cohesive, human, and leadership is very important. Shannon Susko‘s book, Metronomics, explains what systems your company needs to grow. Learn how to unite these systems into one regimen that works for you and your team.

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Managers Need to Work as Teams

Johanna Rothman

However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? He said, “As a manager, I'm supposed to be on the hook for what the team does.

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5 Tactics to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work

Harvard Business

But they also foster a reactive culture. If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. The headwinds of false urgency can be intense.

Culture 101
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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Teams need to figure out how to manage their WIP, collaborate with the customer, and deliver something small every day. That's a cultural change to self-managing teams.

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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. Before I recommend alternatives, let me examine why well-meaning managers thought “shared services” worked. Why Managers Thought Shared Services Worked.

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