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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( What the card represents is progress.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( What the card represents is progress.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

What makes this developing market so dynamic is the wide array of medical wearables, from implantable devices to ingestible ones, that have the potential to track all kinds of patient data including drug adherence. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Potential Benefits.

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People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise

Harvard Business

One musician was described as having inborn ability (the “natural”), whereas the other musician was described as having worked hard to develop her ability (the “striver”). The profiles were randomly generated, so any potential alignment between objective metrics (e.g.,

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