Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Guardian recently published a long but interesting piece on the history of time management (from Taylor forward). For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. You’ll find the link here.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 29, 2021

Managers often miss the greatest leadership principle of all-time. Let’s get to where the rubber meets the road. They give you clues to what’s going on in organizations, and the potential impact of The Greatest Leadership Principle of All-Time. This is true about what it takes to be a successful leader.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2023

While productivity is important, the balance between task completion and taking the time to connect with your team is essential in avoiding burnout and making work more enjoyable. A consequence of our often never-ending to-do lists at work is the loss of camaraderie among coworkers.

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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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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

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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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 24, 2022

At the same time, as the CEO, you probably don’t want to spend all your time managing that day-to-day and building your backend systems. One could be responsible for documenting your processes, while the other is responsible for running great meetings.

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Kai Davis

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Four Thousand Weeks is explicitly not about productivity, getting things done, or tips and tricks to answer more emails. Convenience culture seduces us into imagining that we might find room for everything important by eliminating only life’s tedious tasks. Library availability shows up on the Amazon book product detail pages.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They assess the team’s culture and ensure that it is healthy enough, accountable enough, and aligned enough with key strategic initiatives to help, and not hinder, strategy execution. Being a Player-Coach New managers are held accountable for team results. Are your managers capable of leading and delivering in a way that makes sense?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. Environment.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 16, 2018

Employees need to find out where, in fact, they are spending their time. Only then can they begin to prioritize their activities to maximize their productivity. Most employees are besieged by an overload of requests and distractions—texts, emails, unnecessary meetings and overly chatty office neighbors.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

”Utilization” essentially looks at the average amount of time between your first and last email or meeting of the day across several months of data and estimates total weekly working time for each employee. In the companies we analyzed, the average manager spent 30 minutes every 3 weeks with each of their employees.

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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. Personnel Management: A study compared training alone to coaching and training.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Our approach is rooted in extreme programming and agile processes , and the foundation of our work environment is a pair programming culture. It signals that breakfast is over and the office-wide meeting is about to start. I’m not quite as motivated (in terms of my fitness) or organized (in terms of my time management).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. Photo by Vicko Mozara.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. The organization wonders why no one can “meet” a deadline. Why three months?

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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? Benefits of Management Teams.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Its story of a bibliomaniac who unearths an ancient poem, cracking opening the cultural door to the Renaissance, has inspired me with a creative way to write about a risk capital project that’s due later this week. Meeting up with other work-from-homers to “keep each other company” is like that.

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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.” Nearly all leaders (96%) claimed they lacked time for strategic thinking, again, because they were too busy putting out fires. .”

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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? Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. The office kitchen.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. ” But, in fact, research suggests the opposite: Working from home increases productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Stephen Smith for HBR. Reflect on your motivations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Yet it can also be a highly addictive time-sink if we’re not careful about our goals , purpose , and usage. Time-based internet blockers helped me increase my productivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.

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