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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

For instance, a 2002 study of major construction projects found that 86% went over budget. His cutting-edge thought leadership was featured in over 400 articles and 350 interviews in Time, Fast Company, CBS News, Inc. When was the last time you saw a major planned project suffer from a cost overrun ? Magazine, and CNBC.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. But the members of your team will be much more likely to go the extra mile if you demonstrate a sincere commitment to helping them succeed in their own careers.

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10 Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams

Tim Milburn

Criticism is constructive and is oriented toward problem solving and removing obstacles. The leadership of the team shifts from time to time, as appropriate, to drive results. He is also the co-author of the business best-seller Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces (Harvard Business School Press, 2002).

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements

Strategy Driven

private construction workforce belongs to unions. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan. .” What it does not address is the freezing out of non-union bidders and the increases in taxpayer costs.

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 the company hired a chief diversity officer, Anand Rohini, to make diversity a priority. Individuals now construct identities consciously. Consider Sodexho. Some of the diversity priorities at Sodexho focused on gender, ethnicity, disabilities, and age. By 2005 Sodexho was widely recognized as a diversity champion.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

Upon his retirement in 2002, Bill invented a new life and purpose (by making little bets, I might add shamelessly) to write and to teach. The new book is about how to create a great personal board of directors or tribe, along with all the norms, practices, and feedback mechanisms to support your leadership (and life).

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Decoding The Truth Of Leading Multi-Generational Workforces

Tanveer Naseer

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

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