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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

Indeed, a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that fifteen percent of companies offer a 32-hour workweek. This reveals problems as they arise, and forces workers to confront and resolve problems in real time. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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

Johanna Rothman

Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ? The biggest problem I see in feedback loops is when managers think in resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency. What might happen to the various cycle times? Managers make decisions faster.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.