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Get Motivated: 10 Motivational Speeches That Will Change Your Life

ProjectManager.com

What’s amazing about people is, despite the external forces at play on our constitution, we can always be influenced by attitude. Rowling, Commencement Speech, Harvard, 2008. In this famous speech that launched the Lean In movement, Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg deconstructs the idea of the career ladder. Rowling, too?

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. Next, Some Stats.

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Nudge Theory and Cognitive Bias for Change Management

The Strategic Project Manager

More recently, Nudge Theory has been formalized in modern times by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, scholars at the University of Chicago, in their book, “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” (2008). People benefit because it is fast…but it leaves them highly susceptible to outside influence.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts.

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4 Project Management Trends of 2020: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow Blog

A PM is a leader who’s in charge of managing conflicts within a team, negotiating, persuading, influencing a dialogue partner, and many more. They use, for instance, so-called ‘Wagile’ (Waterfall + Agile), ‘Scrumban’ (Scrum + Kanban), or ‘Lean Six Sigma’ (Lean + Six Sigma) frameworks. Gig Economy.

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Episode 182 – How GREAT is your Resistance? Changing a No to a Yes

Velociteach

It’s an offshoot of influence to be able to lead people effectively. Six Principles of Influence BILL YATES: Patrick, we were talking just before we started recording, there was someone early in your career that influenced that. Talk a bit about the person that influenced you. And that’s all that leadership is.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The Influence of Selection Bias on Effort Overruns in Software Development Projects,” Magne Jørgensen, Simula Research Laboratory & Institute of Informatics , University of Oslo. Story Point Estimating,” Richard Carlson, ALEA, Agile and Lean Associates, 2013. Could Social Factors Influence the Effort Software Estimation?”