Johanna Rothman

APRIL 13, 2021

The current culture pulls them one way. The culture changes—or lack of changes—freeze them. The middle managers think they can't easily change the culture. See A Contrarian’s Perspective on Agile Mindset, Behaviors, Culture.). Read the Modern Management Made Easy books. They're stuck. But they can.

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Agile Management Culture Leadership 108

Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 20, 2021

Efficiency in business comes down to reaching goals with the highest degree of quality and speed possible. When workflow breaks down and this efficiency fails, it’s worth questioning why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. If the hands and feet, eyes and ears don’t coordinate, the body can’t move efficiently.

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Efficiency Software Tools Energy 52

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. So, we’d like to give you guidance in this flow of resources – we’ve selected 11 project management books that any successful project manager should discover. What else will you find in this book?

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You don't want to reinforce resource efficiency, even though you rewarded the person for that all along. Instead, you want to reinforce flow efficiency. Discuss why you want flow efficiency and overall lower cycle time. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate.

Development 98

Development Management Efficiency Agile 98

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. And, if you look at other country's cultures , you can see the US might rank the highest on Individualism. See Book 2 for what you can do about that myth.).

Software 111

Software Management System Travel 111

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

I updated this in the book.) See Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1 for a series about agile career ladders.) (See Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1 for a series about agile career ladders.) You'll finish faster and avoid learning debt.

Agile 55

Agile Efficiency Management Culture 55

Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Negative organizational culture: The overall culture within an organization can impact teamwork. If the organizational culture promotes competition, silos, or a lack of collaboration, it can trickle down to the team level and hinder cooperation.

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Training Training Leadership Resources 99

Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Leverage Technology: Provide remote workers with the necessary tools and technology to perform their tasks efficiently.

Leadership 101

Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. Anytime I've seen a successful innovation culture, I've seen these principles. (I'm Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Manage for effectiveness. Seek outcomes, not outputs.

Agile 40

Agile Efficiency Culture Resources 40

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2021

I wrote Pairing, Swarming, and Mobbing because I was concerned that teams didn't know how to work in flow efficiency. Managers create the culture—the environment—where everyone can succeed. Everyone thought “utilization” worked better.). However, managers don't create products. The benefit of having that goal?

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Management Efficiency Culture Productivity 92

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.). See Modern Management Made Easy Book 3 for specific ways to deal with individual manager goals.). If you want to create an agile culture, start with the managers. I'm always off. And, the teams benefit.

Management 101

Management Agile Meeting ROI 101

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I took an opportunity to write a new book this year, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. That book satisfied one of my business goals: to write more useful books. That book was on my options list, but I had not planned to write that book this year. I'm now able to finish the consulting book.

Management 98

Management Productivity Guidelines Consulting 98

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 20, 2022

But we have more options for new people if we create a more collaborative culture. The more management believes and rewards resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency , the more likely you are to have long wait times in your total cycle time. Resource efficiency optimizes “down” for each person's salary.

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Efficiency Productivity System Culture 79

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

That's how you can create the culture you want.). Most of the problem is that organizations reward resource efficiency, not flow efficiency —even for managers. This post is from Practical Ways to Manage Yourself , book 1 in the Modern Management Made Easy series.).

Leadership 78

Leadership Management Efficiency Meeting 78

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 16, 2017

What “cultural fit” really means. Hiring based on low salary vs resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Open book management, especially with regard to salaries. We spoke about many issues in hiring: Laundry list/shopping list problem in job descriptions. How we build interpersonal skills via doing work.

Agile 40

Agile Efficiency Culture Resources 40

Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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Resources Management Emotional Intelligence Trends 52

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. Successful agile organizations change their culture. Everyone, especially middle managers, focus on flow efficiency and collaboration (the subtitle of the talk). They don’t know what that is.

Agile 54

Agile Video Efficiency Culture 54

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

This post is about what you can do to create an agile culture, regardless of where you are in the organization. BTW: One more thing about an agile culture: Many of the people I spoke with at the conference are convinced they need to “scale.” And, they change the culture to one that supports agile approaches.

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Agile Culture Efficiency Guidelines 65

Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Up until now, HR wanted to reward an individual's contribution, thinking in terms of resource efficiency. Yes, it’s about the ideas in the Modern Management books, but you’ll recognize many of the ideas. Here are links you might find helpful: My Books. It depends on what the managers reward. New to the Pragmatic Manager?

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Agile Engineering Insurance Insurance 75

Emerson Consulting Group

JULY 8, 2019

Furthermore, the United States could enjoy a global economic competitive advantage once our actions led to the most cost-effective and efficient government among developed nations. Our challenge is to motivate ourselves to initiate a cultural shift toward greater civic responsibility. And to those who don’t even do that!

Government 40

Government Culture Education Efficiency 40

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.)

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Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 80

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

What culture do you want? If people have to ask for books or training, could you offer everyone a book allowance or a training allowance? The longer I wait between cleanings, the more I need the marathon. If you've been accumulating policies and procedures, you might also need a marathon of significant management attention.

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Policies Leadership Guidelines Agile 130

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Assuming they work with the team, they already started a culture of collaboration. Yes, I teach these workshops for each book remotely. However, sometimes, even if the team recognizes they have internal delays, the team can't solve that problem.

Management 108

Management Agile How To Productivity 108

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. I think, in terms of the Modern Management Made Easy books, these behaviors support how a team can work for an overarching goal. This is a series: Why the Popular & Easy Career Ladder Prevents an Agile Culture, Part 1.

Agile 69

Agile Productivity Culture Management 69

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Agile Culture Productivity Development 60

Epicflow

JANUARY 17, 2022

In turn, managing multiple projects involves dealing with dependencies between them and maximum efficient utilization of shared resources, so that you won’t only have a sum of successful projects, but a successful business. . Book a call to learn more. Bringing distributed teams together . Dealing with uncertainties .

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Industry Management Resources Trends 52

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 21, 2021

We spoke about a number of ideas from the Modern Management Made Easy books: How to recognize and avoid micromanagement. I had a terrific time with Joe Krebs on his podcast. See Agile FM – Johanna Rothman. What it might mean to engage people at work. The kinds of workspaces we need. Psychological safety. One-on-ones.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Our awesome intern Nate is here to bring you his unbiased review of a very unique book: People over Profit , authored by Dale Partridge. Partridge then lays out what he terms “The 4 Eras of Organizational Behavior” – The Honest Era, The Efficient Era, The Deceptive Era, and The Apologetic Era. INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS.

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Automotive Efficiency Culture System 100

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings. But they need to be intentional, planned, prepared, and well-facilitated in advance in order to make them as efficient as possible. Other meeting formats often become redundant or merge for greater efficiency. BOOK A CALL AND BOOST PRODUCTIVITY!

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Meeting Tools Survey Productivity 52

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. It's time for performance reviews. What do we do? What we encourage in the work.

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Agile Culture Efficiency Productivity 132

Epicflow

AUGUST 19, 2022

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of this process, and let you know how project managers can make it more simple and efficient by utilizing a resource management solution. . Enterprise environmental factors: government and industry standards, organizational culture, marketplace conditions. .

Management 52

Management Data Resources System 52

Johanna Rothman

MAY 18, 2021

See the Modern Management Made Easy books, too. Encourage experiments and learning. Catch people succeeding. Exercise your value-based integrity. The podcast: Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman. The post Fun Discussion with the Agile Uprising appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Agile Exercises Management Consulting 92

Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Research studies have linked effective performance management with positive individual and organizational outcomes such as increased productivity, decreased employee turnover intentions , reduced absenteeism, improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Consequences of Tolerating Poor Performance.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Engineering 52

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow.

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Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I remember back when, and I don’t mean to diminish Alan’s current status, I don’t know much about what he’s doing right now, but back in the day when I was paying a lot of attention to him, he’d publish 600 articles and thirteen books or something. The major might be, “I’m going to write a book.”

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Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 116

Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2022

Asamby uses a process derived from the book “Who - The A method of Hiring”, that we adapted for small business. It streamlines these processes and makes searching for viable candidates much more efficient. Result in inflexible culture. This measure also helps to keep track of the efficiency of multiple channels of recruitment.

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Recruiting Recruitment How To Advertising 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To help them in their new roles, companies spend almost $14 billion a year on courses, books, videos, coaches, tests, and executive education programs — and such spending rose 10% last year. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation. But there’s little evidence that much of this works.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 44