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Around the world, teams are challenging old out of date work methods “other people’s thinking” as Steve Jobs called it, and replacing this thinking with twenty-first-century smarter work methods.

This article covers some of the techniques you can replicate that will make work more fun and more rewarding. It contains 30 pages designed to help readers to implement quick wins that will save their team time, covering: how to Post-it reengineer, scrum meetings, Kanban boards, lean management techniques, and Toyota’s 14 management principles. It also explores some of the management lessons I have gathered on my journey to writing The Leading-Edge Manager’s Guide to Success.

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This article gives you the answers to the following questions:

• How can I work smarter instead of harder?
• What tips are there to help me work smarter and faster?
• How to increase productivity and achieve more in less time?
• What are the ways to increase my team’s productivity?

Contents

• Overview
• Making work fun
• Have a grand finale
• Recognition
• Celebrate more
• Off-site team meetings
• Blue sky Fridays – making time to shape the future
• Offer leading edge training opportunities
• Work Habits
• Beware of becoming a workaholic
• Three Screens
• Move to a stand-up desk
• Greeting the guest
• Remember you /remember me
• Full attention at meetings
• Returning phone calls
• Network within your organisation
• Cell phone etiquette
• Have a cluster of mentors
• Having a safe haven – a second passion
• Using consultants effectively on projects
• Look a million dollars
• Embracing learning
• Communication
• Learn how to sell change
• Have “Action Meetings”
• Hold stand-up SCRUM meetings
• Other ways to save time in meetings
• Controlling the wild beast — your email
• One-page reporting
• Contribute to the organisation’s newsletter and intranet
• Delivering bulletproof PowerPoint presentations
• Innovation
• The importance of Peter Drucker’s abandonment
• Embracing Kaizen
• Jim Collins’ five step innovation blueprint

This article will make you more productive and give you more control over your day. These articles are sent as a PDF copy, normally within 48 hours of payment.