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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. Jim Carrey, Commencement Address, Maharishi University, 2014. That change was first on display at this speech for the graduates of Maharishi University in 2014. We’re all in it together.

2008 324
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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

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Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). But the fact that some candidates “survived” the process isn’t enough to conclude that it works.

2015 227
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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. Trust and emotions are also all about humanizing business processes and creating experiences that add both differentiation and unique value,” states Dr. Lowenstein.

2016 78
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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

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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 The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. than on individual traits.

2012 157
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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

The same process for estimating is applied to multi-billion dollar projects we work. And the same process is applied to the Scrum development processes on those projects. . Here's some materials that provide the tools and processes needed to learn how to estimate. 1, January 2007.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

So start here to build your academic foundation, that can be put to work to build a foundation of validated experience of making estimates in the presence of uncertainty and protect yourself from fallacious claims that estimates are a waste, not needed, and produce bad resulting in the decision making process for those paying you to produce value.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

“A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Project Risk Management: A Combined Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Tree Approach,” Prasanta Kumar Dey, Cost Engineering , Vol.