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New Book: Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook

Eric Jacobson

I am a big fan of the series of Harvard Business Review (HBR)’s Handbooks , including the one for leaders and the one for family businesses. Newest in the series is the HBR Project Management Handbook. Nieto-Rodriguez defines projects as : Limited in time; they have a start and an end. Project failure is not always bad.

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Leadership at the Symphony

Great Leadership By Dan

I wondered if the conductor would lead differently in the presence of a star but it sounded as if she and the conductor were almost operating as one as she played her solo with the conductor bringing the orchestra in to provide background and harmony. This piece featured a world-famous violinist.

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Current Method / Better Way Matrix Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Team Project tool to create shared language of progress & regress. Can break inertia (stuckness) in how your project team operates. The team facilitator I recommend the team leader / Project Manager documents the responses on flipchart paper. Current Method / Better Way Matrix Team Building Activity. Innovation tool.

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5 Tips To Successfully Transition From Rookie To Leader

Tanveer Naseer

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. Regardless, you’ll be expected to bring them to resolution – without the aid of a handbook.

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

It’s not just what they project that makes them charismatic; it’s what they elicit. Informally talking out problems and solutions, it seemed, produced better results than following the employee handbook or obeying managers’ e-mailed instructions. They pick up cues from others, draw people out, and get them to be more outgoing.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

One book, I would have anyone who worked for me read is the Leader''s Handbook. of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise.

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Work Culture Examples Abound: What Does Company Culture Mean to You?

HR Digest

and while s ome state it explicitly in their handbooks and paraphernalia, other organizations indicate it by their policies and actions toward employees. Setting good company culture examples is a task for the leaders of the organization to establish from the first day of operation.