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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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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. The chaos has changed the way the consulting process is carried out but the end goal of providing reliable solutions to clients has remained the same. Lack of physical engagement with clients has added challenges.

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

Johanna Rothman

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ?

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Also, do it yourself.

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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

(See Modern Management Made Easy Book 3 for specific ways to deal with individual manager goals.). If you reward the managers as a team, you'll get shorter decision times (management cycle time) and shorter team cycle times. If you want to create an agile culture, start with the managers.

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Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks

Kai Davis

Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. But it’s a lie.

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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. They don't realize how much more effective flow efficiency is.). They're wasting time, which costs much more than the salary costs. In any culture or lifecycle.

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