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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Teams are becoming more and more common and important. As the traditional, hierarchical school of leadership diminishes in significance, a new focus on networked team leadership is emerging to take its place. A parallel approach to team building has been shown to help leaders build teamwork without wasting time.

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Managerial-Leadership Case Study: Falling from Big Enough to Too Small in competence for the role

Mike Cardus

Contact Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership to fix this before it happens. Jackie had recently been hired as vice-president of engineering. Prior to her new role she was director of engineering. The department begins to sink in scale, matching the competence of its manager…. It can be fixed…. .

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What if the Miracle Question Worked with Corporate Teams?

Mike Cardus

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. Then you do what you normally do after work.

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Three Keys to Product Management Success

Lead on Purpose

Provide clear direction: One of your key directives as a product manager is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. Give clear direction and project confidence and your full support to the work the engineering is doing. Provide solid product design (with the help of good designers).

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The 5 Goals of a Project Manager | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. The trick is to be focused.

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Instead of looking for the Problems. Start looking for the Exceptions

Mike Cardus

Or, “The engineers are always so smug and condescending to us; don’t they understand the pressure we are under!?” Or, “Every time I lead a meeting with the financial team they just sit there and stare at me; they never offer anything useful.”. I cannot stand working with that person.” www.create-learning.com.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. A key to giving clear direction is for product managers to project their confidence and full support to the work engineering is doing. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.