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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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What Does Your Culture Value: People “Efficiency” or Work Throughput?

Johanna Rothman

Resource Efficiency. ” I asked, “How many projects are they working on?” ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .”

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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. That's a cultural change. ” There are many better ways.

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How to Create Partnerships Instead of Using Stakeholders

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

Manage your environment or culture. I'm not sure how much WIP any given team should have. I'm also a fan of working in flow efficiency , so the team can finish more features faster. Also, see the Pairing, Swarming, Mobbing post so you can see how people might work together, keeping the team's WIP low. What can you do?

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How to Activate Team Creativity and Innovation

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence suggests creativity is activated by both and your company culture. Leaders need to consider the desired knowledge, skills, and abilities of the employee, the desired organizational culture, and the workplace climate. According to US Department of Labor statistics from 2017, 47% of the workforce in the United States is women.

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How To Recognize Effective Project and Program Management

Johanna Rothman

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.