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Planning: Today’s actions for tomorrow’s output
Three steps your planning process should consist of:
- Step 1 – Establish projected need or demand: What will the environment demand from you, your business, or your organisation?
- Step 2 – Establish your present status: What are you producing now? What will you be producing as your projects in the pipeline are completed?
- Step 3 – Compare and reconcile steps 1 and 2: What more (or less) do you need to do to produce what your environment will demand?
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Ways to improve on time management techniques
- Identify our limiting step: determine which things have to happen on a schedule that’s absolute, and which can’t be moved. You can then plan more flexible activities around it and thus work more efficiently.
- Batching similar tasks: group similar acti...
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Using (leading) indicators to measure and predict
In order to run a production process well, you’ll need a set of indicators that help you monitor and improve the efficiency of the production line. For these indicators to be useful, you have to focus each indicator on a specific operational goal.
Leading indicators like the sales forecast...
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Leverage
Leverage is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate a high level of output; an activity with low leverage, a low level of output. This raises the question about what qualifies as managerial leverage and output.
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High leverage activities
To maximise the leverage of his or her activities, a manager must keep timeliness firmly in mind. Equally, managers micromanaging or ‘meddling’ are examples of negative leverage activities. A big part of a manager’s work is to supply information and know-how, and to share a sense of the preferred...
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If people spend more than 25 percent of their time in meetings, it’s a sign of malorganisation.
PETER DRUCKER
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Three ways in which to achieve high leverage activities
- When many people are affected by one manager.
- When a person’s activity or behaviour over a long period of time is affected by a manager’s, well-focused set of words or actions.
- When a large group’s work is affected by an individual su...
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High Output Management
“High Output Management” by the late Andrew Grove, ex-Chairman and CEO of Intel, is a must-read management book.
First published back in 1983, the book applies production principles to management. All (product) managers can benefit from the principles discussed below and make it a part of ...
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Meetings And Their Output
A lot of managerial tasks are best suited for face-to-face interactions, and more often than not, for meetings. There are two kinds of meetings:
Process-oriented meetings: Knowledge is shared and information is exchanged during process-oriented meetings, which take place on...
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Managerial Activities
- Judgments and opinions
- Direction
- Allocation of resources
- Mistakes detected
- Personnel trained and subordinates developed
- Courses taught
- Products planned
- Commitments negotiated
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Identifying the “limiting step”
The “limiting step” is the step in the overall shape of the production flow that will determine the overall shape of a company’s operations.
For example, the time required to boil an egg is the critical component or the ‘limiting step’ in the production flow of serving breakfast.
Th...
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The Output Of A Manager
A manager’s output is the output of all of the people and the teams that report into her. For example, if someone manages a design team, then his output consists of completed designs that are ready to be implemented. That output can take many different forms depending on the type of role and ind...
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Detect and fix issues at the “lowest-value stage” possible
If there’s a problem with your product, you want to find out about it as early on in the production process as possible so that you can minimise the risk.
In the production world, I witnessed the lowest-value stage thinking first hand at the assembly line of a Toyota factory. Here, employe...
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Whenever someone asks me what my advice would be for 20yr old self, I have one answer. Make sure, decisions in your life are made from a point of awareness.
Merely knowing what you need to do is not enough for you to do it, awareness is the start of the decision not the end of it.
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- Build a habit. Identify what you need to do to reach your goals. Practise those steps daily.
- Communicate. Share your intention with your team, so they know when you're available.
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How do I Perform
Few questions to ask to know how I perform👇
1. Am I a Reader or Listener ?
2. How do I learn?
3. Do I work well with people or am I a loner?
4. If you do work well with people, you then must ask, in what relationship ?
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