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Frontline Festival: Best Practices in Project Management and Project Planning

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on project management and planning. We’ve been doing a lot of work with project managers and their teams in our corporate work as well as speaking at a number of Project Management Institute conferences and […].

Project 361
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Failing to Plan is…

Kevin Eikenberry

You’ve heard it said that failing to plan is planning to fail. You have also likely had times when you didn’t plan or didn’t do it well enough. While we all agree with that wisdom of planning, we don’t always implement a planning process that improves our success rate.

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Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

As the pandemic and uncertainty persist, we invite you to consider putting people before projects. We’re not saying people instead of projects. It’s people, then projects. As you get to know people, learn about their people, pets, and projects. You can use our 5×5 Communication strategy to plan your key messages.

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Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations

Let's Grow Leaders

Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You can become […].

Project 425
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It’s Time to Focus on Projects, Not Ideas

Leading Blog

W E get distracted from what matters to us by our personal projects. Charlie Gilkey says in Start Finishing that a project is “anything that takes time, energy, and attention to complete.” There are projects that keep us busy, and then there are projects that help us thrive—get us to the next level. We’re full and fed up.

Project 273
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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2%

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Steps and Tips for Proper Project Planning

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development We have all heard the age old 7 P’s about the effects proper planning has on your performance. Poor planning is one of the top reasons most businesses fail. The ability to properly plan and complete projects can be an extremely intricate, complicated [.].

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