productivity

Your System is Talking to You – Are You Listening? Hint: You’d Better Listen

July 10, 2009

I’ve been reading Chasing the Rabbit by Steven Spear, and highly recommend it.  The basic premise of the book is that highly complex systems are too complex to design and build perfectly. The best organizations continually learn about their systems by listening to feedback and spread that knowledge across the organization. Meanwhile, their less nimble [...]

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Reading List for Week Ending 6/27/09

June 27, 2009

I read an awful lot of articles, blog posts, and books and thought you readers might find at least some of them useful. Each week I’ll post links to the ones that I found most interesting or useful. I’ve also created a category, Reading List, so you can easily find and review these lists at [...]

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4 Steps to Stop Fighting Fires: Step 1 Stabilize The Patient

June 13, 2009

So far, we’ve discussed the goals of this project and provided an introduction to the 4 steps outlined in the Visible Ops Handbook. The main goal is to migrate from constantly responding to crisis situations and move toward driving your organization. Throughout this series I will share examples from my own situation, and hope to [...]

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10 Steps to Better Productivity & Less Stress

June 12, 2009

This is a guest post by Paul Gardner with minor edits by me. Paul writes a blog on leadership and productivity called, Simply Productive. You can subscribe to his RSS feed and follow him on Twitter. I’m a big believer in leaders learning how to be more productive with their time, and Paul has a [...]

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