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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

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. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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5 Tactics to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work

Harvard Business

But they also foster a reactive culture. If everything is urgent, there’s little opportunity for creative and deep work, which tends to flourish only when there’s time and space. The headwinds of false urgency can be intense.

Culture 101
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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

I told the story of Cliff, a manager who wanted to understand why the projects were so late. One eagle-eyed fellow asked me this question, “How long was the time from T0 to T1?” ” I said, “Managers might spend as little as a quarter and as much as a year or two. .”

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Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem

Harvard Business

“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better. .

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An Underused Way to Make Culture Change Stick

LSA Global

Culture’s Role in Business Success We know from our organizational alignment research that workplace culture – how work gets done – accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. But how to you make culture change stick because, simply put, culture matters.

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

Johanna Rothman

This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Teams need to figure out how to manage their WIP, collaborate with the customer, and deliver something small every day. That's a cultural change to self-managing teams.

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Strategic Leadership and Personal Wellness with Rich Horwath

Leadership Vision Consulting

Rich joins us for an insightful conversation on how leaders can refine their strategic acumen, from the intimate connection between self-care and peak leadership performance to the art of fostering a team culture primed for success. The post Strategic Leadership and Personal Wellness with Rich Horwath appeared first on Leadership Vision.