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Make Better Decisions When You Have Too Much Ambiguity

Make Better Decisions When You Have Too Much Ambiguity​ As a leader in the organization, you have a Big Decision to make. You need more data. However, getting the data is impossible in the timeframe you need to decide. The data you want might not even exist. What do you do? You could pray. I’m …

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How to Say, “I Don’t Know” and Keep Your Job

How to Say, “I Don’t Know” and Keep Your Job (If you don’t realize why you’re receiving this email, I discovered a problem with my newsletter settings. Feel free to unsubscribe. The link is at the bottom of the email.) How easy is it for you to say, “I don’t know,” or “I need help?” …

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Create Your Peer Management Team for Fun and Profit (and to Solve Problems)

Create Your Peer Management Team for Fun and Profit (and to Solve Problems) Do you wonder how to get more done in your organization? Your teams are working pretty well, delivering at a reasonable pace. Yet, you have the nagging feeling you could get more done. You can. The secret is management teams, not just …

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Secrets to Catch Yourself Mind-Reading

Secrets to Catch Yourself Mind-Reading The more remote we are, the easier it is for us to assume we know what other people think. I call that mind-reading. I am not clairvoyant—not even with my husband. (We both would like a little clairvoyance, at times!) The more mind-reading we do, the more likely we will …

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Three Predictions About the Future of Remote Work

Three Predictions About the Future of Remote Work We’re now several months into our dispersed work “routines.” (I suspect that anyone with a child at home would love to have a real routine.) And, as I work with my clients, I’ve learned several fascinating details: Many teams are much more effective now. Teams that can’t …

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Three Ideas to Boost Your Productivity

Three Ideas to Boost Your Productivity Several Pragmatic Manager subscribers have asked me about how to build and maintain their productivity. They say they have these problems: The longer they work apart from other people, the less they have the “peer pressure” of a collaborative schedule. They find it hard to maintain focus for a long time. …

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How to Manage by “Walking Around” When You’re Remote

How to Manage by “Walking Around” When You’re Remote If you’re like me, you learned a lot by walking around and listening when you were in the office. I saw and heard the state of the various teams. I could see in-progress work. I could see and hear how the team members treated each other. …

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Three Tips to Move from Agile in Name Only to Real Agility

Three Tips to Move from Agile in Name Only to Real Agility Several of you have written to me, asking about the problems you see. Your managers focus on certifications, practices, and vanity metrics—not real agility. The managers don’t understand how agility can help them. You see cargo cult agile. You worry that agility is …

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Work From Home? Three Ideas for Better Project Agility

Work From Home? Three Ideas for Better Project Agility Samantha, an agile manager, had a big problem. Back before everyone had to work from home, they had pretty good results with their standard agile approach. However, now that this eight-person team worked from home, they had these problems: The team didn’t share the same work …

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Three Ways to Rethink Your Business

Three Ways to Rethink Your Business I received several thank you’s for the previous newsletter, Three Tips for Coping When You’re Supposed to Lead. I’m delighted that the issue resonated with so many of you. I’ve worked with several clients over the past weeks to help them rethink their projects, portfolios, and their business. Here are …

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Listened to our latest episode w/ @johannarothman yet? We cover:

🙂 Traits of a good manager
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🖥️ Meetings vs. workshops and/or ceremonies

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I was so excited to interview @johannarothman having read a few of her books over the years. Hope you can give it a listen and check out her latest book series! https://twitter.com/_maintainable/status/1366808106236272645

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Start the week with a new episode ft. @johannarothman! We talk about:

🦾 Traits of healthy teams
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🌱 Strategies for growing a team

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