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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. At the roundtable discussion about project management in the collaborative age way back in 2012, the talk turned to how project managers could shape strategy.

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How to get the best from your sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Vicki James, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship. Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship , about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Remove personality from the conversation to have a greater influence on your project sponsors and their support.

2012 195
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Grateful Leadership™, Increasing Organizational Effectiveness in an Evolving Globally Connected World

The IIL Blog

Conducted with attention to detail and employing qualitative research methods, this study provides preliminary insights into how leaders influence organizational success through the adoption of grateful leadership practices.

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Strategy vs. tactics: How to use both to build better products

Planio

If you asked your team to explain your company’s overall strategy, how many of them would get it right? Having a product strategy often isn’t the issue. Instead, many teams struggle with communicating that strategy to their team and embedding it in the tactics they use on a daily basis. Strategy and tactics work hand-in-hand.

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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 Being, and remaining, part of a social group has always been an important survival strategy for our species. than on individual traits.

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

Scrum.org

This bias often manifests as a “positive test strategy” (Klayman & Ha, 1987) where people only test assumptions by looking for what confirms them, but not by also considering what would falsify them. The Liberating Structure Myth Turning is a good example of this strategy. Fundamental attribution error. Examples in the workplace.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

Having the right ‘head’ of the PMO is also critical, in Leading Successful PMOs the top five attributes for a great PMO leader were explored: The good PMO leaders must champion project management and project managers across their organisation as well as believing in the business strategy. Strategy execution and business transformation.

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