Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. The more I work with people on teams, with teams, and with managers, the more I am convinced starting with the teams is the “wrong” end to start. ” He paused for a moment.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. They're wasting time, which costs much more than the salary costs. Agile approaches break the idea of a “shared service” model of people.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame. For example, by adopting agile principles, leaders can motivate and energize teams, and give individual team members a way to own the results.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? Benefits of Management Teams.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

For example, today’s manager spends a lot of time emailing, gathering data , running meetings, and making spreadsheets, so the utility for improving at these activities is especially high. We combined this with our own data on how long each of these features takes users to learn, and plotted the two against each other.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I converted from my religiously observed to-do list (daily work plan) to this calendar system, also known as timeboxing (a term borrowed from agile project management). not exclusively employer-owned) version of this data, or someday it won’t be in your calendar. Fifth, they lack a commitment device, to keep us honest.

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