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7 Must Read Books on Stakeholder Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, 7 Must Read Books on Stakeholder Management , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. There are thousands of project management books, many of which focus on the difficult issues of managing stakeholders. Here are some of the best. Practical People Engagement: Leading Change Through the Power of Relationships. Patrick Mayfield, Elbereth Publishing, 2013.

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How to Actually Boost Your Team’s Performance

Project Risk Coach

Discover 10 Words to Motivate Your Team Why is that one project team can vastly outperform another team although both teams have similar skills? Motivation. If you want to boost team’s performance, speak encouraging words consistently. Each day presents opportunities for you to breathe life into your teams. Your teams are more than a group of zombies.

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Psychology of uncertainty

Musings on Project Management

"We study natural stupidity rather than artificial intelligence" Amos Tversky Tversky--now deceased--was a partner with Daniel Kahneman, who together wrote some of the most influential papers on the processes of decision making under uncertainty.(*) If you're a project manager or business manager, then you have that task routinely. If you've not read at least the seminal work "Judgment.

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How to Actually Boost Your Team’s Performance

Project Risk Coach

Discover 10 Words to Motivate Your Team Why is that one project team can vastly outperform another team although both teams have similar skills? Motivation. If you want to boost team’s performance, speak encouraging words consistently. Each day presents opportunities for you to breathe life into your teams. Your teams are more than a group of zombies.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Stop Overspending With Time Tracking and Productivity!

TimeCamp

Overspending is one of the main problems that companies have to address effectively if they are to optimize their operating services and start seeing positive outcomes. To stop overspending, you need to use a multifaceted strategy that includes improving productivity, time-tracking and time management. Read on and find out how these factors will help you stop overspending and give you a better outlook of your finances!

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but the world as it will be. — Isaac Asimov. This as it will be world, requires making estimates, since that world is driven by uncertainties - Epistemic and Aleatory uncertainties. This is an Immutable Principle for managing projects, especially projects where we are spending other people's money.

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How Marketing Agencies Stay Productive: Steve Fitzpatrick of Digital Domination

Boost by Brightpod

This week we feature Steve Fitzpatrick, Owner and Managing Director of Digital Domination. Digital Domination is a.

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Using SharePoint for Project Issue Management

Brightwork

A former project manager colleague of mine once quipped “Project Management…what’s that? My job is Issue Management!” The other project managers and I all had an uncomfortable chuckle and nodded in agreement because it certainly did feel that way at times. Seems not a week went by that we weren’t trying to put out some project fire (aka “issue”) that flared up.

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