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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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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis. That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. The managers worry that the teams can't finish “anything on time.”

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks.

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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. They (the team) feel that the tasks for the sprint are too varied to manage to a single sprint goal. And these managers have not read the Scrum Guide.

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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. Foster an inclusive culture that values different perspectives.

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How a Collaborative Culture Can Attract Young Professionals

Tom Spencer

As a result of this generational shift in workplace culture, consulting firms are under pressure to adapt by improving work arrangements for employees. A change in the culture of the sector could help to enhance the work environment, encourage employee loyalty, and enable hiring managers to attract top talent.

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Subsequently, stacks of uneaten pizza remained on the break room table for hours — a stale reminder of a stale culture. While a party or shared meal can provide a fun break from the norm, organizations cannot rely on one as a magic solution to deeper issues in your company’s culture. So, What’s Wrong with Pizza?

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