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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). The more ambitious the project, the greater the obstacles. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company). Low awareness.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Project Budget on Track and Profitable

Strategy Driven

Develop a Detailed and Realistic Budget In order to effectively budget, you must understand the full scope of the project, including an estimated breakdown of travel costs, equipment, software, payroll, etc. Don’t forget to include a healthy projection of worst-case scenarios and budget for those as well. List everything.

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How to Price Your Consulting Projects High… But Not TOO High

David A Fields

Correctly pricing your consulting firm’s projects is like positioning a balloon in an unlit room made of nails. On the pricing floor of the room are the rusty nails that … Continued The post How to Price Your Consulting Projects High… But Not TOO High appeared first on David A.

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RIP: Retired in Position

Lead Change Blog

“Retired in position” refers to an unengaged employee, a term which I first heard used by Ken Blanchard. Adding insult to injury, 52 percent of those workers are sleepwalking through their day or retired in position. It is quite the conundrum to challenge an employee in a position where there are no longer challenging opportunities.

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The Transformative Power of Positive Leadership

General Leadership

In tangible terms, a project initially forecast to span 70 years and cost taxpayers $36 billion was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $29 billion dollars under budget… a feat the government’s own General Accounting office declared unlikely, if not impossible.… … Read the rest.

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Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown

Chartered Management Institute

Article: Rethinking project risk: finding opportunity in the unknown Written by Prebagaran Jayaraman Monday 26 February 2024 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email It’s common to think of ‘risk’ as negative, but did you know that it can also be positive? Reduced competitive edge. Underused resources.

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12 Tips for Leaders to Positively Influence Their Teams

Lead from Within

By being present and aware of your interactions with your team, you can foster a positive and productive work environment that ultimately leads to your team on reaching their full potential. Here are 12 tips to help you positively influence your team: Learn from your mistakes. No one is perfect, and that includes leaders. Support them.

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