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Management Tools For Leaders: The FADE Cycle

Rich Gee Group

Benefits: In many instances, quick, off-the-cuff 'executive' decisions are made to solve endemic problems (upper management is notorious for doing this — they know better than you). The problem might be as simple as a dysfunctional program that requires a deeper fix to create a new product line.

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Managing a Remote Team: 12 Best Practices for Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

To ascertain staff productivity in teams that are scattered across various locations, below are twelve best practices to effectively manage a mobile/remote workforce: 1. Managing a remote workforce will require application of a diverse set of techniques and mediums to get a task accomplished. Measure productivity.

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Communicating Your Project Plan With Stakeholders

Strategy Driven

As a project manager, one of the most important things you need to do is communicate effectively. This is something you will learn about extensively during your project management courses. Gantt chartsGantt charts are ideal for showing the status of the project in real time. Peck MAPA Group have.

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Great Quotes: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

QAspire

I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Managing Your Energy. On Progress.

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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder Sure, as a project manager / business leader, you: Completed the project in given time frame. Shared statistical reports with the top management. Track value delivered, when you tracked through the Gantt Chart? Within the budget.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. ” Metric obsession.