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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

Resource Efficiency. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .” What does your culture value?

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How to Choose Your Management Role for Most Effective and Efficient Work

Johanna Rothman

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Individual efficiency is a red herring.

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Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks

Kai Davis

The best new book I read this year was Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman: [link]. After I finished reading it (in March of 2022), I sent a text to a friend saying something like this: Four Thousand Weeks will probably be the best new book I read this year—six out of five stars. I wish everyone would read this book.

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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email!

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. While those skills are useful, they are not enough.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Want Business Agility? Use These Seven Innovation Principles

Johanna Rothman

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. (I'm Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Manage for effectiveness. Seek outcomes, not outputs.

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