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Qualities of a Leader: Top 20 Leadership Traits

ProjectManager.com

Leadership qualities can be difficult to label because leadership itself is so present in our lives that traits can be hard to identify and define. Leadership can take many forms, from historical figures to project managers and business managers. Self Esteem Self-esteem is tightly closed to emotional intelligence.

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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. Command and control project managers were often revered and feared. Do You Choose a “Bullying” Leadership Style? One can see the merit of this command and control leadership style on the battlefield.

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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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2017 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want To Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

RICS and APM Project Leadership Conference: London, UK, 28 March 2017. The theme will be Collaboration in Project Leadership, and they are partnering with the APM as in previous years. You can read my write up of the 2016 conference here ). Brexibility is the theme of this year’s conference that focuses on project controls.

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Simple Rules for High-Performing Agile Teams

International Institute for Learning

Servant leadership and self-organizing teams are foundational Agile characteristics. A cross-functional team in which people fluidly assume leadership as needed to achieve the team’s objectives. Servant Leadership. Leadership at all levels needs to demonstrate and create a safe environment. By Alan Zucker.

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Our Most Popular Articles of the Year 2022

MPUG

Leadership Styles and Levels for Project Managers. Create a Monthly Cash Flow Report in Microsoft Project 2016. Integrated Change Control. Microsoft Project 2016 Preview: Multiple Timelines. Leadership, Leadership Levels, and Leadership Styles for Project Managers. Earned Schedule Management (ESM).

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The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master ?-? Brazilian Portuguese Edition

Scrum.org

The 8 stances of a Scrum Master is a paper I published in 2016. Scrum Police : Enforcing the rules of Scrum without considering the context and without explaining why the rules are important; Chairman & Scribe : Acting as a chairperson during Scrum Events and keeping tight, unilateral control of the discussion and the agenda.

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