A personal approach to organizational time management
Improving the fit between the priorities of managers, their direct reports, and their supervisors—all the way up to the CEO—is a good place to start.
^ADJ: Russ Laraway makes the point in his new book there are only two priorities of management, the first being to delivery an aligned result - so often there is not the clarity required to create as cascading down of priorities - something we can all do better on.
Russ Laraway Of Qualtrics On How To Identify And Retain Fantastic Talent
Russ Laraway is the Vice President of People Operations at Qualtrics. Russ has had a diverse 25-year operational management career. He was a Company Commander in the Marine Corps before starting his first company, Pathfinders. From there Russ went to the Wharton School, and then onto Google and Twitter. Post Twitter, Russ co-founded Candor, Inc., along with best selling author Kim Scott. Over that span, Russ has managed 700 person teams and $700M businesses facing a vast array of leadership challenges along the way
^ADJ: Added in this article, as a follow-on from the McKinsey article on time management, as they are linked - managing, retaining and attracting talent is hard, but Russ shares some great tips on making it simpler.
6 Principles to Build Your Company’s Strategic Agility
Strategic agility is the ability to improve performance — not just survive but thrive — amid disruption. Companies that successfully navigated the Covid-19 crisis identified when to deviate from their strategic plan and adapt to the changing environment. The authors identified three distinct ways they did this: First, they were nimble enough to avoid the worst impacts; second, when they were hit, they were robust enough to absorb a lot of the damage; and third, they were resilient enough to accelerate forward faster and more effectively than their peers. They offer six principles to help companies boost their strategic agility in these three areas.
Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud
^ADJ: AWS has grown into a behemoth, had year on year impressive growth rates (whilst consistently lowering the pricing of its services), and is soon coming to NZ.
I think its commonly mis-understood, AWS is more than just compute, its an entire eco-system that increasingly becomes the glue within a business - often un-noticed.
Six Trends Shaping the Future of Enterprise Technology
Bain’s research identified six trends at various levels of maturity that are changing how enterprises use technology to deliver.
^ADJ: Whilst this article is targeted at Enterprises, I am always interested in what the big consulting firms are seeing, as typically Enterprise “tech” and thinking flows down to Small and Medium Sized companies. What is also interesting is the higher levels of performance, when tech investment is tied to strategy - so often this is forgotten, and BAU gets precedence.