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At the age of experience and sewing Smart CarokingI saw something consistent: many founders like to start working, but very few people enjoy handling them. It’s easy to be happy to start a job. It’s hard to wake up every day and manage it well.
Management is not sexy. You don’t like social media. But as I shared in my book Entrepreneur smartIf you do not appropriate, you will always react to the leading place.
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Which guidance really means
Not the bureaucracy of the management. This is not just systems, meetings and schedules. Accepts the decision to manage. It is responsible and know what you need to watch progress.
Peter Drucker simply defined it: “Management is doing right; management is doing right.” In Basic DruckerHe also reminds that the ordinary people of the management work have been allowed to do extraordinary work as emphasized in this case Harvard Business Review Article.
To do this, you need rituals that provide accurate priorities, numbers and performance you trust.
Effective management formula
Entrepreneurs need to be facilitated how they handle. You don’t need a MBA. Need a rhythm. Here is the three-part formula I use:
1. Numbers tell the truth
If you don’t look at the right numbers a week, you guess.
I always ask:
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What are your three most important measurements?
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Did I appear to the team?
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Do you review them weekly?
These numbers for us in Smart Coworking:
Numbers create adaptation. They finish the ideas. They allow for faster, smarter decisions.
One McKinsey sheet The performance measurements are 3.5 times more than the clarified teams. Similarly, a Gartner study emphasizes that companies that adapt team measurements with strategic goals are a significant impetus in employees’ marks and general results.
2. People drive numbers
Second Principle: Metrics are output. People are input.
You cannot distinguish the culture from the results. If your team does not feel safe, careful and equipped – they will not give up.
Therefore, we performed a weekly 1: 1: 1s, regular opinion loops and a team dashboard that appears. These practices create property.
As described in the Simon Flare book The Leaders Eat The Eatpeople don’t work hard for you to pay them. They are working hard because they are seen and supported.
Culture is a secret engine of performance. And management how you build this engine.
In DriveDaniel Pink explains that motivation comes from autonomy, crafts and purpose – and explains the role of these elements (source).
3. He beats rhythm speed
Not accelerating at a single speed. Is rhythm.
So the management needs Cadence. We watch a clever weekly period in Coworking:
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Monday: Team synchronization with KPIS
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Wednesday: Deep work / no
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Friday: Short retrospective when working and what
This rhythm helps to escape from firefighting and focus on what matters.
You do not need complex tools. You need a consistency. As James wrote in Atomic habits“You don’t get up to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
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Tools to start with more than spending
One of the greatest myths of entrepreneurship: “I will pay attention to the management when you grow up.”
No. You grow up for managing. You measure the organized. You repeat the documents.
You can start:
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Shared KPI board using Trello, understanding or Google sheets
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Weekly verification-ins with your team
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Monthly reviews of your main work arms
You can even use Slack Channels for automatic daily updates. What is important is not a tool, the discipline behind it.
According to a study Institute of Project ManagementA mature project and management practices lose 28 times less money than those who have experienced experiences.
To manage chaos: Our experience
Protect from work intelligently with early, hustle and instinct. Until this is not developed. After opening more than one unit, chaos came in.
When we go to this simplified management system. The results were immediately:
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Productivity 35%
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The team’s turnover cut half
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Faster, more confident decision making
Today we operate eight units between Brazil in cities like Brazil, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. We serve through a highly valuable, highly automated model that is not possible without operating discipline to thousands of entrepreneurs.
And this is not just about the scale. About sustainability. You don’t burn when you’re well managed. You build.
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Manage not only reaction, intentionally
Entrepreneurship will always be uncertainty. This is part of the game. However, management is the stability in this uncertainty.
Peter Drucker, “If the plans do not degenerate the hard work, plans are just good intentions.” Management is: The hard work of its intention to turn into the structure.
Not glamorous. This is not excited. However, the reason for the survival and development of intelligent work.
As a Professor of Harvard Work School Robert Simons wrote Seven SUPPLIESGreat managers simply do not execute – they protest the assumptions, clarify the priorities and create accountability.
Thus, if you are not too, it is not clear or clinged, this is not your opinion. This is your leadership. Make it up and everything gets easier.
