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Do We Need ‘Agile’ Leadership?

Agile Coach

Yesterday Adriana Girdler and I presented Timeless Leadership at the Toronto Agile Tour. Our intent was to show that everything we need to know about leadership has already been invented, we just need to stop and look around once in a while instead of jumping on the next agile fad. We Don’t Need to Redefine Leadership.

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

That’s the reader’s digest of my life from 2008 to 2014. What started with the intent of telling a great story, spawned a global movement: ~10,000 copies of Lean Change Management have been sold factoring in all distribution channels. The inclusion of Lean Change Management in Harrisburg University’s change course.

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Innovation forces companies to adapt to an ever-changing environment and to be able to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. A different leadership style than with traditional project management.

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The Dark Side of Innovation | The Juergen Klinsmann Story

International Institute for Learning

Even those with little empathy noticed how proud Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Chairman of Executive Board of FC Bayern, and Uli Hoeness, president of FC Bayern, were when they presented Juergen Klinsmann as the next coach during a press conference at the Munich Sheraton Hotel in January of 2008. Innovation, Investor Patience, and Change Management.

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Webinar Recap: Do You Know How to Recover a Project?

MPUG

So my latest book is the PMO lifecycle, building, running and shutting down, Project Communication tools is my latest communication book, the Tactical guide for building a PMO in way back, and that’s why it looks a little different, but way back in 2008, I published Project Management communication Bible. Has that been applied?

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The Project Communication Plan

MPUG

Management stakeholders aren’t dedicated to the project, but they make key decisions about it. Management stakeholders share similar needs for project communication and can include customers, the project sponsor, a steering committee or leadership team, members of the change management board, functional managers, and so on.

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Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning

Project Management Essentials

An oft-cited statistic is that 70% of organizational change efforts fail. This metric is attributed to Hammer and Champy’s 1993 classic, “Reengineering the Corporation” and is reinforced by a 2008 McKinsey survey of executives.

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