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10 of the Biggest Mistakes Boards Fall Into

Ron Edmondson

This includes being too kind and not managing conflict. While no board member should strive to stir conflict or dissention, pretending to agree just to “get along” isn’t helpful to the organization. Unhealthy personal interests. In this scenario, it was difficult to move projects or ideas forward.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 16
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 14
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Simplifying the STAR Interview Technique for Your Next Interview

HR Digest

Sometimes the interviewer might be very specific about the context they want to discuss , such as “a time when you disagreed with a manager or senior” or “when you failed to meet your sales quota.” Your task could also reflect the process of identifying where and when the conflict started. How did you go about that? What did you do?

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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. The idea is that giving the other party complete information about your interests makes that other party responsible for policing your behavior.

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

Strategy Driven

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. Wendy Powell is the author of Management Experience Acquired. References.

Project 50