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Burnout in Project Management

The IIL Blog

Articles are now appearing addressing burnout specifically in a project management environment [Verma (1996), Haynes and Love (2004), Richmond and Skitmore (2006), Pinto et al., Techniques have been developed describing ways to recover all or part of the expected business value from a distressed project [Morais-Storz et al.,

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Agile Leadership Toolkit - new book

Scrum.org

Early September a new book will be added to the Professional Scrum Series : Agile Leadership Toolkit - by Peter Koning. Traditional management and leadership practices were developed to manage work, to build the process, and to provide the intelligence for work to be done. Agile leadership is the future.

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How can Agile Leaders create the right context for Ownership?

Scrum.org

The core responsibilitie of the agile leader is creating the right context for the agile teams so they can thrive and self-manage. In my book ‘Agile Leadership Toolkit’ I dedicate a whole part to this important topic. These teams are proactive and have the passion and energy to really make an impact for the users of their product.

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Daily Habits of Successful Leaders: Examples and Lessons

ActiveCollab

Steve Jobs](([link] used to spend his mornings in meetings with his product and management teams. At that moment he told his team members to focus on four great products (one for each quadrant) and cancel the others. At the same time, Jobs began taking his team of a 100 carefully selected people on a retreat once a year.

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

His innovations in industrial engineering, particularly in time and motion studies, paid off in dramatic improvements in productivity. The thinking goes like this: Ideas and innovation from your workers were a risk to your business and thus must be eliminated. Ralph Stacy Model visualised with Leadership styles. US Textile Mill.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

What was that, probably 2004, or ’05 or something in that kind of range, I think? – [Mike] You were Director of Development. – I was the Director of Development. I was running a team in the e-bill space. – But I was building a new team, because we were setting up a new organization.

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The Top 7 Management Styles: Which Ones Are Most Effective?

Workzone

They were seen as capable leaders with distinct management styles who guided their organization’s teams to success. But, a four-year study conducted by Leadership IQ found that more often, the case is that the manager’s style is inappropriate for their particular culture. . They were viewed as indispensable. Not anymore.