The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this blog we take a look at how to learn from reading, and have book recommendations for you. There are thousands of management and leadership books, on all kinds of topics. Books are particularly useful if you want to take your time to digest ideas and to process information. What challenges could this help you with?

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The best new book I read this year was Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman: [link]. After I finished reading it (in March of 2022), I sent a text to a friend saying something like this: Four Thousand Weeks will probably be the best new book I read this year—six out of five stars. I wish everyone would read this book.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 29, 2022

A book is much larger than a presentation. And while I'm working with an editor on the book, I don't need to work with anyone else for anything else I do. Does that outcome meet the idea of a Minimums? Instead, I use continuous flow. That's because working in flow allows and creates ease in my development. I work in flow.

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The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’ve been writing a lot about the importance of setting up meetings with prospective clients and those who can lead you to prospective clients. How to Get 100 Meetings. More Meetings = More Clients. But what do you actually say in such a meeting that will move things forward and lead to more valuable connections?

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Our list of highly recommended books to help you succeed as a consultant. You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. By the end of this book, listeners will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. But take heart!

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. I’ve seen several benefits of using a Demo column before the Done column: Too many teams have part-time product owners.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

I provide the Zoom meeting link, but we each bring our own drink. Teams with higher scores on the five behaviors also received higher ratings from their leaders on producing quality deliverables, completing tasks on time, working productively together, and meeting or exceeding goals. Consulting guru David A.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Articles on other people's sites.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department. Extend the shadow of the future.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 10, 2019

Most days we CEOs are caught up fighting fires, initializing paperwork, running to and from meetings and, well, running, running, running. So why would any self-respecting chief executive choose to jump into an even deeper time and energy suck like the prospect of writing a book? What good would it do you? Why should your company care?

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Instead of incurring the time and cost when you bring everyone together, consider the Product Value Team. (In In past writing and presentations, I’ve called this the Product Owner Value Team. I am trying to change my term to the Product Value Team.). The product value team is a different kind of a team.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 24, 2023

Managers of the future will have the people skills to lead highly productive and engaging hybrid work teams. Companies lose $22 trillion dollars a year globally in poor productivity and performance because of toxic workplaces. Besides, they are in too many meetings. Finally, see Rick’s newest book. A record 4.2

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. While those skills are useful, they are not enough.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. We had little to show for six months of meeting. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meeting interesting and thought-provoking individuals. Creating new products and services and innovations. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. Contributions. Grateful for and grateful to. Time to relax and invigorate. Relationships, friendships, and family. Happy New Year!

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

Sales incentives—for example, bonuses to meet monthly or quarterly revenue goals—cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand. Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

With the skills you’ll learn in the products contained within this bundle, you’ll be able to drive demand for your business and generate more leads. If you went out and purchased each of these products individually from my website , you’d spend $475 altogether.

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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.). They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 3, 2020

Back in November, I mentioned that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%.

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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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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The reply: Spend five hours a month in meetings (roughly an hour each week). For example, I'm doing a webinar on November 30 where the value is primarily promotion for my new book. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) Write a new, unique column each month.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 15, 2020

Articulate your value proposition and products and services in such a way that demonstrates to your ideal clients that you are the one to solve their problems and transform their pain points into catalysts for growth. One of the fastest ways to expand your book of work is to proactively advocate for additional work for your existing clients.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. A skilled facilitator — Easily manages groups with disparate views and backgrounds and achieves stated meeting/project goals. Ensures ownership for follow-up actions and meeting outcomes. Continues to learn about their area of expertise.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

There it is in your inbox: a meeting invite to a meeting you really don’t want to attend. Or it’s for a time that’s already booked, and now you’re left to decide whom to turn down. Whatever the reason, sometimes you need to decline a meeting invite. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Having a meeting-free day. Establishing one day with no meetings is a technique that I used throughout 2016 to complete a book proposal and write the manuscript for my third book. By giving yourself one meeting-free day per week, you reduce the context-switching that can slow down dedicated project work.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I'm in meetings all the time. 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?”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 15, 2022

Are they then supposed to return to meet in the office on Thursday?” ” Several teams asked questions about meeting rooms and the availability of those rooms. They knew from experience that there were not enough meeting rooms for everyone to meet. Here are links you might find helpful: My Books.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

One of the greatest by-products of the otherwise awful period of COVID-19 was a more universal workplace emphasis on well-being. A large and growing genre of self-help books and self-improvement podcasts that can help you to ‘know your mind’ have accompanied this increased interest in wellbeing.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 22, 2019

“I have devised a game called “Fifty 20-Minute Meetings.” Your goal is to meet with 50 people over the next few months for 20-minute meetings. The purpose of these meetings is to exchange ideas, insights, resources and connections. The meetings are only 20-minutes long as to make it easy to fit them into your schedules.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Most people see meetings as a burden, a waste of time, or a general annoyance. But meetings aren’t going away. The good news is that leaders have the opportunity to significantly improve how meetings are run at your company, which could boost your influence and your career. You’ll create productive relationships.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 3, 2013

Seths Books. Check out Seths books. Books by Seth Godin. SETHS BOOKS. Seths most important book about the art of marketing. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery). An instant bestseller, the book that brings all of Seths ideas together. The Book Depository (Free Worldwide Delivery).

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

When team members do not communicate well or fail to provide timely and clear information, it can hinder productivity and create confusion. Employees may struggle to perform their tasks or meet deadlines due to a lack of information or coordination, leading to poor attitudes. Of course, this is ignorance and not a viable excuse.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Based on your feedback and insights above, I would like to create [identify new and creative services or products you’d like to create and be specific] Here is example 1: I am interested in [conduct a meeting with my department heads]. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scheduling and Sanctity of Time: Allocate time for your projects as you would for any crucial meeting and regard this time as sacred and non-negotiable. Leveraging Technology: Utilize productivity tools and apps to streamline tasks and manage time efficiently. Time, while finite, should never be a barrier to pursuing your vital goals.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun. But meeting those challenges is absolutely worth it. Yes, marketing is challenging.

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