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

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.).

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Software Management System Travel 111

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 97

Management Productivity Guidelines Consulting 97

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?

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Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) I updated this in the book.) Focus on collaboration, as a team works in flow efficiency. That's because the team didn't learn together. Collaboration decreases learning debt. Teach people how to offer each other feedback and coaching.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?” All technical practices.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. I always estimate how long my books take. I'm still experimenting with my book writing to make it faster.). On this project, the team looks ahead for the product strategy.

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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. Not an unfinished, defect-full product. .” “Yup.

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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. However, managers don't create products. Managers create the culture—the environment—where everyone can succeed. That's different work than product work. The benefit of having that goal?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Not for the product.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. See previous issues.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. I think, in terms of the Modern Management Made Easy books, these behaviors support how a team can work for an overarching goal. We need career ladders that reward working together.

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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.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. What culture do you want? Or have those same risks.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. With productized, you do it the other way around. Tell me more about that. What do you mean?

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Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 121

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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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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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.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Engineering 52

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. .

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Management Data Resources System 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. I like to think of all deliverables as products. What do we do?

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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. Production performance. Impact on cycle-time.

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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. In the world Partridge inhabits, systems touching everything from healthcare to automotive production to fast food are inefficient, and worse, operating at the expense of the people who make them run. .

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In my book, Company Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense I have a list of 19 reasons to consider growing by acquisition. Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting.

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Cash Flow Small Business Sports Talent 40

Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Resources Productivity Management Efficiency 59

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Back in 2010, one of Judson’s residents realized that the goal of enlivening the cultural life of the retirement community and the need to provide affordable housing for nearby graduate music students might be simultaneously solved. In his book How Old Are You? But something else has happened.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 6, 2021

A Honus Wagner baseball card is quite rare (Wagner didn’t permit the card to be made because he wanted nothing to do with cigarettes, foreshadowing some of the stuff below) and so there were fewer than 200 all in before production shut down. NFTs are going to be more like Kindle books and YouTube videos. That’s on purpose.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. Selfless love cultivates an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of our differences.

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Leadership Trends Journal McKinsey 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. One of the most overlooked aspects of innovation is how much technology can enhance productivity. You and Your Team Series.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Changes to a developed product. Changes to a developed product are inevitable, however, they turn into challenges when they get out of control and there are several sources of truth. Therefore, ensuring remote teams’ efficiency will require additional effort. . Run simulations to make efficient resource allocation decisions.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Peter Block, in his seminal book, Flawless Consulting , explains that a “consultant” is someone who is trying to change another person, process or organization, but who has no direct control over what they are trying to change. Usually, that change is intended to improve performance – the effective and efficient achievement of goals.

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