Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy. In Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, management professor Howard Yu uses history to lay out a path for resisting disruption.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

Your managers don't want story points—they want durations and dates. That's why I recommend all teams (including management teams) measure cycle time, not velocity. This team now shows their confidence level to management. If you're not sure about cycle time, read Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 27, 2011

In any case, I thought I’d share some answers I’ve provided to several management consulting and leadership questions posed on the site: What will be the most important skill for business during the next decade? What are the best management consulting books available in the market? Let me know what you think.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. Managing my website.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

Project management is no exception – data is becoming increasingly important for analyzing project and resource performance, making effective decisions, and driving projects toward their successful completion. How exactly is data used in project management? What is data-driven project management?

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 28, 2022

Our project management consultants often need to help clients navigate resource challenges, whether during the initial planning phase or after the project has moved into the execution stage. Funding may be the first thing that comes to mind, but many teams also struggle to manage scarcities related to personnel, knowledge, and time.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. The faster your team, customers, or managers need feedback, the more you need an iterative and incremental approach. 1,2 and so on.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book, almost ready for release. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. And the customers care about the value those products offer.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Nigel is the author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow , a must have book “for any manager, leader or Minister.” Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? ” The Hon Mike Baird MP, Premier of NSW. What are your thoughts on that?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Books, but that's a much longer effort. I tend to promote my books on podcasts. But you don't need a book to go on a podcast. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.)

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Too many managers don't know how to manage remote people. Worse, those managers, or their organizations, don't trust people to do a good job. See Management Myth 22: If You’re Not Typing, You’re Not Working.) But second, this is an example of management micromanagement. That's classic Theory X behavior.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A Business Case in Project Management: Definition and Importance. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [1], a business case is a document that allows decision-makers to determine whether the project is worth the investment. This is where a resource management solution can assist. Problem description.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 1, 2024

That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. The post Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Luke and I always have fun discussions.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A final cause of self-inflicted disruption is management’s overreaction to noise in the data it measures. Managers capture all kinds of metrics, from the number of patient falls in a hospital ward, to the first pass yield in a production line, to the number of hits on a website, to the time it takes to repair a bicycle.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership. Finally, see Rick’s newest book. Furthermore, RCI’s online resources coach and train all managers or employees to higher levels of career success.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. According to management studies, a key reason leaders derail is that they do not communicate well. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels.

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk podcast host Russ Roberts. Muller argues that public policy and management are overly focused on measurable outcomes as a measure of […].

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ConsultX

JULY 14, 2021

We quickly established that monthly revenue is the most transparent metric to base a simple and understandable fee system on. The ongoing process of managing the implementation of the business plan, as well as the performance of the business is based on a percentage of revenue , provided it exceed the fixed monthly fee. Permalink

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Rick Conlow

JULY 13, 2021

Have you ever asked yourself this question: how can I be the best manager I can be? Summarize the result: customer behavior, teamwork, bottom-line metrics. Too often as managers we replay or review our shortcomings or failures not our successes. Attend leadership course, read new books, and listen to CDs or watch DVDs.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell states that most plane crashes are due to a whopping seven consecutive errors. The latter metric allows each shareholder to know how much profit each share of the company produced. This is fairly normal and legal financial management. What happens then? Unsubscribe at any time.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

82% of business failures are due to poor cash management. My good friend, client and financial genius, Phil Symchych, founder of SME Business wealth Builder® identified several key metrics every business owner must ask themselves and know the answer to. What are the metrics in your own business that you must follow?

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Books devoted to problem-solving emphasize the importance of deeply understanding the problem before implementing countermeasures. Our managers don’t nurture a culture of continuous improvement. The second problem statement puts the focus on the managers. What metrics are your competitors using?

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk podcast host Russ Roberts. Muller argues that public policy and management are overly focused on measurable outcomes as a measure of […].

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). Many managers want to know the answers to these questions: When will we see the first bit? ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Your team manages its WIP.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 19, 2021

Research also suggests that managers who focus on service to others are more successful than those that do not. Aspiring and experienced supervisors, managers and executives alike have benefited from their findings. It included 20,000 managers from four continents. Too many managers are negative. Being Credible.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We have a government with annual deficits of $1 trillion and with a lot more “off the books” because there are non-budget items. I’m working on a potential deal where the owner (and his advisors) setup five companies, two operating, one management, one for real estate, and one for equipment.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. So, we implemented a recognition program for customer reps and management. Link to Employee Well-Being: A survey conducted by Globoforce in 2021 found that 84% of employees felt recognized by their manager reported lower stress levels. We thought they could do more.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She's the author of 17 books and counting. You might lead, manage, create, facilitate, build, and more. At a minimum, direct people to your site.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2018

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. Instead of managing time (e.g.,

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

In the book The Checklist Manifesto by surgeon Atul Gawande (one of my favorite books on building scalable operations), the author discusses the errors that occur in surgery. This is one of the reasons that I insist on my clients tracking their key performance indicator metrics. Read Our Privacy Policy. No, Thanks!

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

We have to facilitate acceptance of the change by managing with mind and heart. From Idea to Action: Rethink your performance metrics to reflect new priorities. By the way, you should download our free e-book on having effective meetings.) This all starts with a clear vision.

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