Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. In the absence of guidelines, the organization had evolved into an always-on culture with communication taking place 24/7 – and across multiple platforms. Take the example of a biotech company.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. That's a cultural change to self-managing teams.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Who Should Decide Do your managers feel overwhelmed by all the decisions they must make day-by-day? It is estimated that decision making can take up to 70% of a manager’s time. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities. The Right Culture Not just any decision making culture will do.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

I still see so many teams spend weeks at a time estimating projects they won't start for years. Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. The managers lose their context to make a decision quickly. The managers don't work together.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

energy, enthusiasm, and focus), much of the popular narrative has focused on organizational factors such as job design, leadership, or culture. We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Develop New Managers New people managers need meaningful support to be set up for success. If you want to really improve manager competence and confidence, we recommend you take a highly customized action learning leadership development approach. Because we measured over 800 successful (e.g.,

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2018

While it is true that the knowledge, skills and abilities to manage others is not intuitive, those leadership attributes can be learned. The right management training can take an individual contributor who was responsible principally for their own productivity to a leader who knows how to manage the productivity of others.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

International Coach Federation (ICF) Research: The ICF conducts extensive research on coaching, and their studies have found that 70% of individuals who received coaching reported improved work performance, communication skills, and productivity. It also highlighted that coaching is highly effective in developing leadership skills.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

More specifically, highly utilized individual contributors that work 120% longer hours than their peers are 33% more likely to be disengaged and twice as likely to view leadership unfavorably as highly utilized employees working similar hours as their team. Lastly, managers are engaged at work, too. One-on-ones remain vital.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. However, too many managers still work independently. That’s a problem when the teams have organizational problems a single manager can’t solve. Instead of managers working alone, what if we had teams of managers? We have senior leadership teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” This suggests that the problem of too little strategic leadership may be as much a function of doing as of thinking.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Four mistakes in particular come up again and again. The office kitchen.

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