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Accelerating a business often comes down to addition by subtraction. Encouraging more quick face-to-face conversations while killing off the marathon meetings. Increasing focus by eradicating the interruptions and distractions. Boosting the fun by doing away with boredom. Here are four ways to turbocharge your company. Encourage more human interaction—within limits Though emails and messaging...
So often, we think of productivity as an accumulation of accomplishments: How many things did my team get done today? How many items can I cross off my to-do list? But the correlation between the number of boxes you check and how much important work you actually did can be tenuous. Maybe it’s time to...
While clans on Game of Thrones wage war to win the Iron Throne, another skirmish for supremacy is taking place on the enterprise landscape. Except in this battle, executives are pitted against a powerful enemy that makes White Walkers seem cute and cuddly by comparison: communication overload. As our GoT-inspired Infographic reveals, 81 percent of...
In 1880, Frederick Taylor became a foreman at the Midvale Steel Works after turning down Harvard, and he quickly grew convinced workers weren’t getting anywhere near enough done. His radical new approach to ramping up productivity was called “scientific management,” but it’s better known simply as Taylorism. And we’re still dealing with the consequences today....
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a Super Project Manager! True, they don’t wear capes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. But today’s Super Project Managers are fearlessly fighting back against the sworn enemies of project success: lack of visibility, misallocated resources, poor collaboration, disconnected teams—and the list...
If you and your team are new to using Clarizen’s suite of project management tools, you may have some questions. If that is the case, you’ve come to the right place. Here are some of the top questions that new Planview AdaptiveWork users ask, answered by the professionals at Planview AdaptiveWork. What Can Planview AdaptiveWork...
Baseball teams rise and fall on a pitcher’s skill at mixing up speeds and locations from the mound. When choosing a pitch, it’s crucial to predict how the batter will respond. The difference at the office is that you’re all on the same team. When you propose something new, it’s helpful to think through how...
For the majority of organizations, the journey to business agility has been somewhat successful, but not nearly as transformative and rewarding as they had hoped and expected. As such, some organizations are wondering if agile is here to stay. The answer is yes…and no. Yes, agile will be around for a long, long time because...
UK Manufacturing Growth Spikes to a Three-Year High Despite the recent recession, unemployment in the UK has not reached the same dire levels as other countries. In fact, as of February-April 2017, the UK Office of National Statistics listed the unemployment rate (for those age 16 and over, seasonally adjusted) at just 4.6%. This is...
For individual employees, the effort to separate signal from noise—to eliminate distraction and focus on what matters—may feel like little more than a daily annoyance. But for businesses, distraction at scale become a bottom-line problem. Work takes longer. Creativity suffers. As employees and teams struggle to find their focus—and struggle even more to maintain it—organizations...
