Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2021

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). I would argue that most productivity improvements belong there as well.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

AI-powered tools offer individuals a range of ways to boost their individual productivity including assistance with task prioritization, time management, professional development, and a range of other activities. Research Assistance AI tools can assist in collecting, organizing, and analyzing information, and generating useful insights.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 8, 2019

When you have a small product that serves maybe three types of customer (new, expert, admin for example), and that customer is down the figurative hall, you might not need any product people. Let's talk about why we have any product people at all. Product people: Create and refine the strategy behind the product/service.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Although virtual meetings have become a norm of working life post COVID-19, there is much that still feels strange about them. Below are 10 tips on how to re-energise virtual meetings, to ensure they remain a productive tool for businesses and employees working from home. Enable connection. Avoid ‘zombification’.

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LSA Global

MARCH 21, 2024

Strategies to Minimize Meetings in the Workplace Endless meetings at work can impede productivity, decrease employee engagement , and stifle innovation. New manager training participants often complain about being trapped in a cycle of back-to-back meetings, leaving little time to lead, manage, or coach their teams.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

In Part 2, I will highlight 7 key differences between internal strategy and management consulting. Some notable consulting projects included: Planning the 5-year global strategy for the CEO across geographies, customer segments, products, and distribution channels with heavy emphasis on the post-COVID trends and profit pools.

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Comatch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Grappling with complex topics, meeting demanding deadlines, and working long hours are all part and parcel of life as a consultant. 3 Reasons Hobbies Drive Productivity. Independent consultants are multi-role players, having to master every aspect of their consulting product. Stay Focused. Drive Neuroplasticity .

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. For example, someone on your team who is feeling down enters a meeting. Stress is an emotional contagion.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 8, 2021

2 Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity. Identify the meetings that can be eliminated, take tasks that you ought to tackle, and shift things around that make sense. Do a series of team planning meetings. 2 More Considerations to Move from Whirlwind to Productivity.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 17, 2020

This is a new experience for many of us, and poses new challenges and distractions that can make it difficult to stay focused and productive. I’ve been getting asked a lot lately about productivity, and so I thought I should dedicate an article to it. The earlier you wake up, the more productive you will be.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

Sales incentives—for example, bonuses to meet monthly or quarterly revenue goals—cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand. Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount.

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Nash Consulting

JULY 20, 2023

Picture this: a team meeting, two members start arguing, tensions running high, and the air so thick with awkwardness you could practically spread it on toast, all of which we had courtside seats to. How can we master the art of productive conflict to enhance our relationships and performance? in miscommunication.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Then, offer some options for how to proceed, including changing meeting techniques. That's why I wrote a chapter about meetings in Manage It!

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

In case you're wondering, here's my current status: 3 presentations still on the list (I completed 2, including the one I recorded). All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. Don't call it a meeting. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2024

The structure is comprised of three simple questions: 1) What: Describe and define the facts, situation, product, position, etc. 2) So What: Discuss the implications or importance for the audience. 3) Now What: Outline the call-to-action or next steps such as taking questions or setting up a next meeting.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 11, 2019

That intent might be an entire product. That cross-functional team is a product team or a feature team. I tend to call them feature teams because they might move from feature set to feature set when they work as part of a program or over time as the product evolves. I explained about this in How Long Are Your Iterations, Part 2.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

A mystery novella that I think is about 2/3 done. 2 columns I want to write. Does that outcome meet the idea of a Minimums? The post How I Manage My Product Development: Ease with Continuous Flow (Day 1) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. My updated writing workshop. It's hard for me to know.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 10, 2019

Too many teams have overloaded Product Owners. I first discussed the various roles we often need to define and refine the product as we proceed. That was in Product Roles, Part 1: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts. That's in Product Roles, Part 3: Product or Feature Teams.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Improving Productivity Feels GREAT. :: Did you know that achieving more productivity is pretty simple? So explained Josh Zerkel, Director of Global Community, Channels and Training at Evernote, and Productivity Consultant, and Certified Professional Organizer® at the recent WIC General Meeting. Have a productivity buddy.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

My leader wasn't a part of the meeting. Strengthening organizational commitment maximizes employee productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 1 (2), 6-66. But, my boss's leader was. Increased employee creativity. Winston, B. & Patterson, K. Winston, B.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 4, 2020

As my firm and project team have adjusted to working from home, I’ve compiled a list of best practices that have helped me maximize my productivity during this strange time. Normally, everyone on my team meets in person, and we chat about things that need to get done for the day. Schedule daily check-ins. Create a dedicated workspace.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized. Instead of asking “do you like this logo?”

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 15, 2024

It is about creating not just a product, but an experience that resonates with and delights users at every interaction. Successful designers understand the importance of working within cross-functional teams of developers, product managers, and other stakeholders.

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Kai Davis

APRIL 30, 2019

Do you feel frustrated at crappy, time-wasting meetings? Here are three rules you can follow to make your meetings more actionable and less sucky: Rule #1: Every meeting must have an agenda. If it doesn’t have an agenda, it isn’t a meeting. Rule #2: Every meeting must have a meeting owner.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. Boy, do I have a lot of work to get done that I’m not doing as I sit here in my fifth meeting of the week. It’s Tuesday.)

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2018

Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant amount of result.” ” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” I’m also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum.

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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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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Moving to a product-based organization means we change the way we view and reward managers. Too often, we measure them by meeting a date for a given project.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Instead of incurring the time and cost when you bring everyone together, consider the Product Value Team. (In In past writing and presentations, I’ve called this the Product Owner Value Team. I am trying to change my term to the Product Value Team.). The product value team is a different kind of a team.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. Not person-based optimization, but optimization for the products/services that the organization needs. They all say something like this: We need resilience in product development and delivery.

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