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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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Create The Future And The Innovation Handbook

Eric Jacobson

Flip the book over, and you have Gutsche’s updated and expanded, bestselling, Exploiting Chaos , book now called, The Innovation Handbook , featuring memorable real-world case studies and plenty of thought-provoking questions to inspire next steps for innovation. It's the ideal guide to turn your big idea into a reality.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Passion projects: They now allow employees to take outside employment or to start their own businesses on top of their commitments to Fujitsu. Over the past 20 years, he has worked on culture, leadership, and workplace design projects with clients throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. 3, 2023).

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2020

Leading Blog

Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. It combines Jeremy's high energy provocative thinking with tactics that have been battle tested through projects with leading innovators like Disney, Starbucks, Amex, IBM, Adidas, Google, and NASA. What are you actually capable of?

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

Great Leadership By Dan

When was the last time you saw a major planned project suffer from a cost overrun ? It’s not as common as you might think for a project with a clear plan to come in at or under budget. For instance, a 2002 study of major construction projects found that 86% went over budget. First, break down each project into component parts.

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My New Book is Out - The Management Development Handbook

Management Craft

It is called, The Management Development Handbook, from ASTD Press. One chapter is a set of screen shots from the best employee handbook I have ever seen. Words like “cry,” “love,” and “irreverence,” are shared in this handbook about management. The Management Development Handbook. Yes, I got all my hair cut off.

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The Importance of Speaking Your Employees’ Language

Joseph Lalonde

They can assess your staff contracts, practices, policies, business handbooks, and existing HR tools to ensure that you have created an environment where everyone feels valued and heard. You don’t want to reveal too much about ongoing projects for fear that it could affect their outcomes.

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