Manage Energy, Not Time. Why Give a Damn: If you want to get the best out of yourself and your team, energy beats time every time. It’s common for senior leadership to feel exhausted managing time and tasks for themselves and their team. It’s never ending, and despite tremendous effort planning and producing, there’s always more. What if… instead of being exhausted, you could manage yourself and your team in a way that was energizing (and be more effective, to boot)? OK — So everyone knows that in any given project, X people will work for Y hours. On the face of it, it means you’ll get XY work hours from your team, and this has been the basic currency of almost all organizational approaches and processes. Whether you follow waterfall, scrum, or the fad of the day, you’re operating on this same underlying assumption. To understand what this might mean, let me share a story from Steve Chandler. So what’s the key difference between the two cases? So why isn’t this done already?
What Project Element? Manage Energy, Not Time. Prototyping Tom Chi Book. Tom Chi | Unreasonable Institute Angel 2013. Inventor and Google Genius: Making Innovation Make Sense. Why Give a Damn: Tom Chi is working with Google to change how we see the world. Literally. Hear his product development strategies, the real deal about consultants, insights on integrity in innovation + tips for making your design process more effective. When you are wedded to your assumptions you are not learning. Bio: Tom Chi has worked in a wide range of disciplines from astrophysical research to F500 consulting to developing new hardware and software (web & client) products and services. He’s worked on large projects of global scale (Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Search), and scaled new projects from conception to significance (Yahoo Answers from 0 to 90 million users). Tom has pioneered and practiced a unique approach to rapid prototyping, visioning, and data-driven design that has allowed him to both get new things off the ground and move large organizations at unprecedented speeds.
Things you learn in any discipline have application in every discipline. Tom Chi - Rapid Prototyping at Google X - MindTheProduct 2012. Tom Chi (thegoodtomchi) sur Twitter. Rapid prototyping Google Glass - Tom Chi. Fireside Chat with Google X Rapid Prototyping Genius.