Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you take the meaning, and not the words behind the imperatives, you see the need for a culture change. But That's Not Efficient, Right? Busyness looks efficient. Effective software teams use flow efficiency , so they all learn together. You will challenge the culture with any agile approach you choose.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 23, 2023

The number of opportunities and degree of perceived risk limit the effectiveness and efficiency of a saboteur. Delegating effectively across cultures. link] Motivation Tactic #3: Minimize Risk Bad news spreads quickly. References Aaker, J., & & Bagdonas, N. How to be funny at work. Harvard Business Review. Chevrier, S., &

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” It’s easy to read such stories as revealing of leaders’ character and their impact on popular culture. But leaders ultimately reflect the culture of their times. And Zuckerberg is just a leading character in a culture—in tech and beyond—that celebrates the unprepared overachiever.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Our approach reminds us of how the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New England Patriots, two competitors in the same conference of the National Football League, collaborated through joint practices and scrimmages during pre-season camps in 2017. On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. The office has a very hi-tech conference room that is used to connect with global Bainies at all levels.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. .” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Sitting in an office cube or in a conference room attending endless, poorly-run meetings is unlikely to be how your company’s strategic or product issues are best solved. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

But according to cognitive science , everybody, by virtue of having a brain that’s constantly seeking efficiency, is biased in some way — and not all biases make us actively malicious. Managers that regularly strive to find common ground in conversation can make this temporary perk part of the lasting company culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

For starters, workplace learnability is far less structured and formulaic than college learnability, and employees must juggle the tension between the demand for the short-term efficiencies of productivity with the long-term quest for intellectual growth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

We encourage our team to take time during work to develop new skills or to speak at conferences. It may cost us a few hours of productivity per month, but we’ll earn that time back as our employees leverage new skills or networks to be more efficient at their jobs. Compensation goes hand-in-hand with corporate culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

In a 24-7, always-on work culture, how do you avoid the perception — particularly amongst more senior or traditionally-minded colleagues — that you’re taking the easy path or have chosen the “parent track”? . Feed the baby while on the conference call! Alison Bukholtz. Keep a firm routine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

For example, your boss makes a meant-to-be inspiring comment about doing more with less, and you smile and nod, but what you’d like to do is upend the conference table. a workplace culture in which particular ways of expressing emotion (what psychologists call “display rules”) are endorsed — or not.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Quite simply, adding technology does not automatically confer expected benefits; these benefits have to be unlocked and this can only happen through achieving organizational changes. A significant cultural change was also going to be needed, especially around information sharing and cross-cultural work.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 22, 2023

Cultural or language barriers: In diverse work environments, leaders may struggle to effectively communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds or who speak different languages. Decreased productivity and efficiency: Inefficient communication can result in delays, duplicated work, and missed deadlines.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

2024 Healthcare Project Delivery Conference January, 30-31, San Diego, USA This year’s conference will focus on implementing developments in procurement, design, financing, and O&M in healthcare projects. The participants will learn how healthcare providers overcome resource constraints and deliver new developments.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 31, 2015

What''s the funnel on our site, and how do we make it more efficient? The full-page ads in magazines, just about all the ads on TV, sponsoring a conference. While it''s tempting to build an organization with direct marketing techniques, just about all the brands that matter to our culture aren''t built this way.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. They are creative financiers who immediately look for new revenue sources, such as acquiring a primary school or developing non-teaching offerings using the school’s facilities for out-of-hours gym memberships, meetings, and conferences. Soldiers trim and tighten, focusing on the bottom line.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) At that time, I didn't realize agile approaches required a culture transformation. I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I Part 1 was about the 4 big problems I see. Part 2 was why we need managers. Part 3 was about how people want a recipe.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. .

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. She conferred with other professionals she viewed as successful about how they saw their ability to set and keep boundaries and have a life outside work.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Not only does working from home eliminate your commute, which for most people is “total wasted time,” but it also “allows you to be more focused and efficient.”

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 13, 2017

Their design is based on the history of their culture, their work, and their people. For companies like McKinsey who have the resources to hire the best designers in the world, they are incredibly efficient with this space. Download my version of McKinsey’s homepage template that I built with X-Theme.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“Before [Lyft and Uber] were started, there were multiple startups that tried to build software that would make the taxi and limo industry more efficient,” Dixon has noted. Earlier this year, Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani asked this question to a group of conference attendees.

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