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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Books that cover ways of working, technical project management, leadership , power skills, soft skills for the workplace, business acumen and also strategic and business management topics count. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. The Coaching Habit Author: Michael Bungay Stanier.

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What Makes Agile Transformations Successful? Results From A Scientific Study

Scrum.org

Kim Dikert and his colleagues reviewed 52 prior scientific studies in 2016 to identify common challenges and success factors for Agile transformations. He observed a successful Agile transformation at a complex and highly regulated military agency that took place between 2014 and 2016. Good research always builds on earlier research.

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Are You A Workplace Bully?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Do You Choose a “Bullying” Leadership Style? Project managers who choose a bullying leadership style get results predominantly through dominance, fear and negative reinforcement. Paul Pelletier.

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Multinational Leadership: How to Successfully Lead Offshore Projects

PM Basics

What are the most relevant challenges of leadership in multinational leadership? Without forgetting the time difference, language barriers, different assumptions based on different cultures, I have experimented that using the right multinational leadership to manage resources is the most challenging one.

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The Human Experience in the Digital Age

The IIL Blog

They] are obsessed with the pressure of new customer acquisition and meeting macro KPIs that represent little influence on customer behavior. Leadership sets the stage for both. Leadership holds the keys—leading from the whole, rather than the top. They will be disrupted by those that do.”3 Hierarchy is dead. Simply Psychology.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

It could generate insights into the stakeholders’ interests, power, influence, and engagement. AI tools could generate a stakeholder-specific analysis of concerns, engagement, and influence. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

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