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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

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. The following short NPR video discusses how emotions are contagious. Stress is an emotional contagion.

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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects. Customers will not wait forever for you to fix problems in your product.

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Setting the right time frame can really help to make your meeting more productive by reducing the likelihood of getting off track. This generally involves making sure your audio and video work as expected.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. At some point today, I plan to upload the videos to teachable. I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. I might or might not have finished the videos anyway. What happened?

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Product Management – What Is It and How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

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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How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2)

Johanna Rothman

I finished one week of the videos for the writing workshop. Finish another week of videos for the writing workshop because I want to announce it “soon.” My cost of delay means that my first job is to finish the video editing for the writing workshop. (I I use Screenflow to take my Zoom videos and edit them.

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Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video)

Johanna Rothman

In the video, we offered several ideas, mostly about moving to rolling wave and just-in-time planning. The post Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That debt is management decision debt. I learned a ton from our conversation. Thank you, Daniel and Prateek for our conversation.

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