Johanna Rothman

JULY 14, 2023

Yet, some email tool vendors think you should “clean” your list. But second—and in my experience—more important, the act of “cleaning” a list means the business does not trust its email subscribers. If an email vendor wants you to clean your list, ignore the vendor. I'm okay with that.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 19, 2019

A Cleaning Experiment. —to clean your backlogs so you don't have cognitive load every time you look at all the work. The post Clean Your Backlogs appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. If I buy something new, I have to get rid of something old.” ” Exactly! Even if you use a parking lot.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 29, 2018

But often, it's the freedom (and fear) of a clean sheet that opens the door to a different path forward. The best time to work with a clean sheet is long before you're confronted with one. Of course, the paper is never fully blank. We have countless assumptions about what our assets are, what's achievable and where we're comfortable.

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Gina Abudi

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s that time of year – spring cleaning! We often associate spring cleaning as being related to the home, but don’t forget about the workplace! What kind of spring cleaning might occur in your organization? The post “Spring Cleaning” in the Workplace appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Harmonious Workplaces

MAY 3, 2024

Employee Engagement and Satisfaction to Ease Top Concerns for Employers When I owned a sign company before the Great Recession, I employed a small but mighty team of multitalented workers who needed to do graphic design, build signs, handle customers with care, clean the shop, and a myriad of other tasks.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The author outlines three key ones — the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations — and then suggests a series countervailing forces pushing against each. The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 3, 2015

My friend Lisa is fascinated by the self-cleaning oven. One button gets it dirty, then another button cleans it right up. Even better, consider the camera that cleans its mirror every time it's turned on. Relationships, processes, interactions--these can be self cleaning too, if we build them that way.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Creative people often excel because they change the shape of the clean sheet.' You can''t do real work without edges, without something to leverage, but those edges don''t have to be the same edges as everyone else uses.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2020

Facts—direct observation—show you that the machine is dirty, covered in oil, and hasn’t been cleaned and maintained in a long time. Facts will till you to clean and maintain the machines on the assembly line, but data will help you figure out how often you need to do it to ensure quality.

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

I’ve usually called it the Spring Cleaning technique, to connote a sense of renewal that often comes with the pastime of cleaning and refreshing a home early- to mid-year. The basic value of a Spring Cleaning management team meeting is as follows: The meeting forces people to think proactively.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 12, 2023

And when collaboration isn't reasonable, suggest that people leave their work clean, so they don't multitask even if they have to context switch. See Context-Switching vs. Multitasking: Postpone Clean Work vs. a Messy Mind.) Business agility requires more slack and resilience in the organization's system.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 27, 2022

A clean floor is a safe floor. “If When we’re trying to change the course of humanity, we need the absolute best team that excels at everything… including cleaning floors exceptionally well. Do you see why clean and safe floors are so essential to achieving our mission to Mars?” A slippery floor is an unsafe floor.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Besides realizing that my carbon footprint for this year would be particularly horrendous, two things occurred to me from my perch in the sky: 1) there are a lot of people out there and 2) you can get a sense of how well a region is embracing clean energy by just looking at rooftops. The clean economy on the roof. Like, a lot.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, no transition is likely to be as fast paced and forced as the shift to clean energy, required to keep global temperatures from rising and to prevent permanent environmental damage. Nature of the Clean Energy Transition. Figure 3 : Activities that are facilitating the clean energy transition. Business Risks.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. A barback supports the bartending staff. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you. If you won’t, your competition will.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

It has cut its emissions of sulfur dioxide, which can lead to acid rain and fine-particle creation; it is rapidly building clean- energy plants and setting some limits on coal; and it orders reduced car travel on days of bad smog. Cleaning up motor vehicles will absorb 210 billion yuan. According to Wang, 36.7 microns diameter).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2021

State Department initiative changed the competitive landscape for 5G. Did it create a new era of internet governance or a U.S. vs. China “splinternet”?

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2017

And even if applying 5S in the bathroom and insisting that the president cleans the toilet seems trivial and superficial, I can’t help but think that there’s real power in those activities. Employees might think, “Hey, I see how organizing and standardizing the bathroom cleaning supplies makes it easier for me to clean the place.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Without the people doing the grunt work of cleaning hospital rooms, entering orders, doing preventative maintenance on machines, picking, packing, and shipping boxes, etc., the visionary CEO. Yes, they’re important. But you need to pay attention to the unsexy work done by unsung people in the trenches. the organization’s stars won’t shine.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2023

Pressure on employers is increasing to ensure that the air is clean in their facilities. The CDC has set a target for air changes in occupied spaces to reduce the risk of airborne infections such as Covid-19.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Since it's easier to change software products if you keep them clean and polished all along, you might be able to use what you know from your MVPs to do a little prediction for finishing. But it's so much easier to keep everything clean as you add another MVP, even as an experiment.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 29, 2017

dry cleaning, house cleaning). Get airline status so that you can board planes as soon as possible (e.g., purchase airline credit card if necessary). Plan your weekends at least one week in advance. Spend some money to make your personal life more comfortable (e.g.,

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

I clean my office in two modes: A cleaning marathon, where I take an entire day and clean up. The longer I wait between cleanings, the more I need the marathon. Maybe you like this idea, but remove something once a week? Remove One Policy or Procedure a Week?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. Clean data enables better, faster analytics. In analytics, nothing matters more than data quality.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workers get training in lean and problem solving, of course, but even more importantly, they have 30 minutes every day to do “lean and clean”—work on improvement projects, or just clean/maintain/5S their areas. Louis is an example of a company that has created these mechanisms.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a false belief on the same level as you have to fix your car before you take it to the repair shop, clean your house before the house cleaner shows up, or get healthy before you go to the doctor.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 31, 2021

Imagine finishing the day with your desk clean and your mind clear. Do you lose precious time hunting for files or emails? Do you wake up at 2am panicking about something you forgot to do? It doesn't have to be that way. Imagine being able to drive your strategic priorities rather than always putting out fires.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Clean your closet. After a swim, everything is better. There are lakes, large and small, that we avoid because of the transition. Back up your hard drive. Settle a feud. Write a thank you note. Tell someone you love them. Go jump in the lake.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Do not fear unallowable costs but rather take the actions we have discussed here to keep your books clean and properly segregate them for an auditor to find them in the right place. Unallowable Policies and Procedures Keeping your books clean of unallowable costs, in practice, takes following the steps we outline in this article.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Maybe it can be part of a Spring-cleaning or offsite event for your company. My twist would be that you might consider setting up a Behavioral Red Team or a Red Team with behavioral economics advisor embedded within. Anchoring is a powerful force that inhibits change. Use behavioral lenses to examine the problem.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 25, 2019

Messy workspace, messy headspace.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Renewable Energy and Clean Tech : Facts : Startups in renewable energy and clean tech sectors play a vital role in sustainability efforts. Statistics : According to Statista, the clean tech market is projected to reach a value of $583.5 billion by 2028, indicating significant growth prospects.

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MishTalk

JULY 25, 2014

An image from the Security Service of Ukraine ("SBU") that purportedly showed a Buk heading back to Russia at nighttime, has now been removed from the cite. I made a screenshot of the image and posted it in Ukraine Caught in Third Major Lie? Magic Number 312.

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 28, 2022

If not, we’d all have flying cars, the moon would be settled with colonies, all energy would be “clean,” and we would be disease-free. Most predictions—even the weather relying heaving on technology—are always suspect. Focus your clients (and yourself) on trends, not predictions.

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Alan Weiss

JULY 5, 2023

But usually, that highway bridge you’re on, or the sewerage treatment unit that cleans your water, are usually provided by the lowest bidder. Incidentally, the government’s FAR Act (Federal Acquisition Regulation) specifies that RFPs can ignore lowest price and choose highest value. A small ray of light.

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Strategy+Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In this video, Wharton professor Katherine Milkman explains how to motivate people to move beyond their past failures and achieve their goals. For more insights, read " Katherine Milkman on Why Fresh Starts Matter ".'

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MARCH 19, 2023

Recently he was cleaning out his desk and came across notes from his learnings over 20+ years ago. Brian has been immersed in the world of Strengths since almost day one and learned from one of the masters.

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