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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration. This not only provides structure but also ensures that the meeting stays focused and on track.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ?

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. Also, do it yourself.

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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

(See Modern Management Made Easy Book 3 for specific ways to deal with individual manager goals.). If you reward the managers as a team, you'll get shorter decision times (management cycle time) and shorter team cycle times. If you want to create an agile culture, start with the managers.

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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. Consultants should expect their time management skills to be tested and sharpened. The cultures and perspectives will add life to your professional network.

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Book Recommendation: Four Thousand Weeks

Kai Davis

Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. But it’s a lie.

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The Costs and Cures for Employee Burnout

LSA Global

For the longer term gain, you need to analyze the time tracking data and adjust behaviors to improve efficiency. The Bottom Line. Strategic – At the strategic level, the way to reduce employee burnout is to ensure that strategic priorities are clear enough for employees to determine priorities and implications.

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