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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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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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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

They think agile approaches are tactics and agile tools are part of their strategy. And that's why they want to Customize and then standardize on tools. ” If they created their boards years ago, they might not realize there are commercial (or paper) boards that do what their tool does, and better. Tools are tactics.

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8 Tips for Running a Productive Virtual Meeting

Tom Spencer

However, there are many ways that we could re-imagine the heavy meeting culture and reform our meetings to make better progress. In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Leverage tools for collaboration and activities. Optimize your “tech” in advance.

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Just as no one is perfect, no organization is perfect, and no organizational culture is perfect. Organizational culture is everyone's responsibility, and leaders play a central role in influencing and reinforcing the company culture. Today, many leaders are asking how they can change the organizational culture.

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Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. They offer their product in two versions: Pro and Lite. As part of the product development, they spin off security and performance teams. Some of the regular product teams figured out one-day stories. Example 2: Large Organization with a Related Suite of Products.

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Use Decision Deadlines to Plan for Product Deliverables

Johanna Rothman

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. Instead of teams being responsible for delivering product, the managers are responsible for explaining when the managers want to decide. What about product decisions? The product value team might need to see product deliverables at least once a week. Or finish a project.)