Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Whether you’re taking over an existing team or starting a new one, it’s critical to devote time and energy to establishing how you want your team to work, not just what you want them to achieve. In those instances, your challenge as a manager is to reorganize roles or rethink strategies to best achieve the goals at hand.

Reorganization 15

Reorganization Deliverables Engineering Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly. As a project manager once told me, "We can use one snowstorm for many months as an excuse for being late with our deliverables.". But it's not impossible.

Accounts 10

Accounts Reorganization Deliverables Workflows 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Get Tommy ready for math test tomorrow… If you’re a working parent, chances are excellent that at any given time, your to-do list looks like the one above — and that it stretches on, and on, and on — an endless, and eternally growing, list of deliverables.

Reorganization 8

Reorganization Deliverables Revenue Energy 8