My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. If you are curious about the origins of this, read Why Minimize Management Decision Time. Enjoy! Note: If you read this in an RSS reader, you might not see the frame below with the actual podcast. If so, please click through to this post or […]
All organizations use cost accounting to report on their revenue, including profit and loss. We are so accustomed to using cost accounting that we don’t realize how it hides the truth about our progress. Worse, cost accounting creates and reinforces a culture of resource efficiency thinking. (In resource efficiency, the person is the unit of
This week’s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. I embed the podcast as a frame in these posts. If you cannot see the podcast, please click through to the post itself. (Or, get the RSS feed and listen in the podcast player of your choice.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of
I’ve been writing professionally since 1997. While you might not agree with my stances on anything I write, you can tell I wrote it. Even in my early writing, my author voice shines through. And I love my em-dashes and commas. (Part of me would like to believe the LLMs stole so much of my
This week’s podcast is from the Continual Planning book. Enjoy! (I embed the podcast in a frame just below the Podcast heading. If you do not see the frame, please click through to hear it. Or, check out the YouTube video below.) The Podcast: The Transcript: This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with
This is Johanna Rothman’s July 2026 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. (Looking for the video? I post the video within a few days of publication on my YouTube channel.) Are you drowning in work? While I mostly speak with project and program managers, or “people” managers, everyone
If you recently published a book, as I did, you might have this same experience. The scammers are out in full force. Here’s what keeps happening to me. I receive an email with a Gmail address, from a person who claims to represent a “reputable” book club. (I find it interesting that they tell me
My podcast this week is from the Continual Planning book. While I do embed the podcast into this post, you might not see it. Or, you might see a black or white box, depending on whether you read directly or from my RSS feed. You can always click through to the podcast, or subscribe in
I started this series discussing where AI use might create bottlenecks. The more people work solo on anything, the more likely they become bottlenecks for the team. When each person works solo with AI, they reinforce resource efficiency, where everyone is busy, but the team can’t seem to finish anything when anyone wants it. Instead,
This is Johanna Rothman’s June 2026 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. Most of us have worked with managers who guided our careers. But managers aren’t the only ones who can support other people’s growth. Sometimes, technical leaders who are not “people managers” can have just as much