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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently. However, individuals may intentionally misreport their hours, or exaggerate their actual work time. Included training in team meetings.

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow

Such a complicated multi-project environment with its project dependencies and shared resources requires a well-thought project and resource management approach. . At the same time, recent trends in the automotive domain require serious investments into the vehicles being manufactured. The need to cut costs.

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

Johanna Rothman

Instead of local optimization, we need global optimization: How can we decrease the time of all the various feedback loops ? The biggest problem I see in feedback loops is when managers think in resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency. What might happen to the various cycle times? Managers make decisions faster.

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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

and would be able to conduct supervised but mostly-independent research using those resources, if you were so inclined. You’ll also have access to University of Minnesota infrastructure (such as database access, inter-library loan, Qualtrics, etc.)

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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You Know You Need More Sleep. Here’s How to Get It.

Harvard Business

If you have no team members who are qualified to do the work, either further develop the ones you have or recruit new team members who are qualified. Addressing this problem may require fighting for more resources in resource-constrained environments. But leaders themselves are also resource-constrained.

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We Need a Better Way to Visualize People’s Skills

Harvard Business

Competency grids demonstrate precisely what people can do: This person can apply financial principles to solve business problems; this person can write memos by synthesizing data from multiple sources; or this person can evaluate web resources. We’ll be able to send clearer signals to the market about all that we can do.

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