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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. This is also true of executives.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

The main differentiator is that while consumer fitness trackers can assist individuals in keeping in peak physical condition, medical wearables have the ability to detect life threatening diseases, provide pain relief, manage chronic illnesses, and collect a variety of biometric data. Potential Benefits. Image: Pixabay.

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How to Build Great Data Products

Harvard Business

The lifecycle of a so-called “data product” mirrors standard product development: identifying the opportunity to solve a core user need, building an initial version, and then evaluating its impact and iterating. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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