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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

My agile transformation clients struggle with this big question: How do we effectively reward managers? How do you incent the managers? What makes sense for management compensation? Cindy, a director in a 500-person IT organization struggles with this—for herself and for the managers she leads and serves.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. Now, these same managers want business agility. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. Worse, sometimes, managers add more policies and procedures.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Faster Management Decisions Can Lead to More Ease and Better Results, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

We manage the risks of long-term commitments (decisions) by gaining experience with that person in many circumstances. (I Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. That's how we manage all our decisions: the Important and the Urgent.

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Managers: Are You Responsible “To” or “For” People?

Johanna Rothman

A manager said to me, “I'm responsible for this department of people.” ” He said, “I'm responsible for managing the people. I also define the products and what the people need to deliver.” Why not be responsible to the people instead of for the people and products?” ” He nodded.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Will Remote Work Destroy Your Culture?

LSA Global

Is Your Culture at Risk? Will Remote Work Destroy Your Culture? As a result, the work culture as we knew it has changed. The results of a recent Gallup poll point out some of the cultural consequences to employees only working remotely. The Importance of Culture to Business Success. Clearly, culture matters.

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