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This Month: The Busy Trap, 10 Questions About Project-Driven Organizations, Answered, What's the Goal of the Goal?, Our Favourite Management Tips on Giving Feedback & More
June is here, and the summer month's are around the corner! Here’s this month’s batch of tech and business reads to help you discover new perspectives and stay ahead of the curve.
The ‘Busy’ Trap - you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to have,” or “Better than the opposite.”
10 Questions About Project-Driven Organizations, Answered - Projects and initiatives are now the primary way strategy is executed and value is generated. A new enterprise model, the project-driven organization, is emerging to meet these challenges. This shift raises many questions. This article seeks to answer 10 of them, including how to balance operations with transformation, how to reduce hierarchy without destabilizing the business, and what will happen to project managers. Answered.
What’s the Goal of the Goal? - We can get so fixated on a goal that we miss the bigger picture. And when we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. What's the goal of the goal?
This Amazing Robot Swims Like an Eel and Detects Pollution - This slithery elongated fish are the Michael Phelps of the piscine world: they move efficiently while expending a very low amount of energy. And they’re the inspiration for the Envirobot, an experimental swimming robot that may someday allow scientists to detect and monitor pollutants in toxic bodies. More about this cool robot here.
Our Favourite Management Tips on Giving Feedback - Deliver Critical Feedback Without Crossing the Line -Giving critical feedback can help people grow, but only when it’s handled with care. If your criticism crosses the line and feels like an attack, it can backfire, shutting people down instead of helping them improve. Use the following practices to keep feedback constructive and focused on learning.
This Month: The Busy Trap, 10 Questions About Project-Driven Organizations, Answered, What's the Goal of the Goal?, Our Favourite Management Tips on Giving Feedback & More
June is here, and the summer month's are around the corner! Here’s this month’s batch of tech and business reads to help you discover new perspectives and stay ahead of the curve.
The ‘Busy’ Trap - you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to have,” or “Better than the opposite.”
10 Questions About Project-Driven Organizations, Answered - Projects and initiatives are now the primary way strategy is executed and value is generated. A new enterprise model, the project-driven organization, is emerging to meet these challenges. This shift raises many questions. This article seeks to answer 10 of them, including how to balance operations with transformation, how to reduce hierarchy without destabilizing the business, and what will happen to project managers. Answered.
What’s the Goal of the Goal? - We can get so fixated on a goal that we miss the bigger picture. And when we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. What's the goal of the goal?
This Amazing Robot Swims Like an Eel and Detects Pollution - This slithery elongated fish are the Michael Phelps of the piscine world: they move efficiently while expending a very low amount of energy. And they’re the inspiration for the Envirobot, an experimental swimming robot that may someday allow scientists to detect and monitor pollutants in toxic bodies. More about this cool robot here.
Our Favourite Management Tips on Giving Feedback - Deliver Critical Feedback Without Crossing the Line -Giving critical feedback can help people grow, but only when it’s handled with care. If your criticism crosses the line and feels like an attack, it can backfire, shutting people down instead of helping them improve. Use the following practices to keep feedback constructive and focused on learning.
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