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

The IIL Blog

By Shana Serrano Introduction: In today’s dynamic and competitive business landscape, effective leadership stands as a cornerstone of organizational success. Grounded in a critical realist perspective, the research employed a case study approach to investigate this social phenomenon.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Books that cover ways of working, technical project management, leadership , power skills, soft skills for the workplace, business acumen and also strategic and business management topics count. It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. The Coaching Habit Author: Michael Bungay Stanier.

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The unbreakable bond: How outstanding service = brand loyalty

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This overwhelming majority demonstrates that service excellence transcends other considerations and has a big influence on brand views. Check out Elizabeth Harrin’s book, Customer-Centric Project Management , for examples and a real-life case study of how to implement a new way of thinking about lessons learned.

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Business Resilience: An Overview

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Unsurprisingly, those are the organizations where resilience and future-proofing against economic shifts is probably not high on the agenda anyway — are those leadership teams really focused on long-term value? Who is this book for? This book would be great for PMO practitioners.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. This makes the Product Owner clearly a leadership role. How to use these insights in practice. Kristinsdottir, S., Springer, Cham.

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3 Ways Organizations Use Measures Poorly

Scrum.org

How users respond to our products and services is influenced by many factors. It is called Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM). It allows participants to use a case study to practice applying concepts in real-time. This leads us to the third common mistake. #3

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AI in Project Management: An Interview with Lloyd Skinner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And I’m personally not worried about that – that will give us much more time to focus on project leadership and stakeholder engagement; the things that computers can’t (yet) do for us. I think they mean 80% of what the textbooks say is the discipline of project management, not what project managers actually do.