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Poisoning the well: Why micromanagement is bad for business

Runrun.it

One might even hazard to say that tolerating micromanagement can run the risk of the company eventually failing due to high staff turnovers, lack of talent retention, poor productivity, poor creativity, and the like. Causes poor communication all throughout the organization.

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How to Boost Your Content Marketing Team's Productivity with Resource Planning

Ganttic

When it comes to boosting the productivity of the team you lead, things are a bit different. Now you are dealing with multiple people and their accompanying work styles, motivations, habits (good and bad), and skills. How do you get the team as a whole to get more done at a faster pace? It can also plague your team.

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Episode 191 – Mastering Power Skills for Exceptional Performance

Velociteach

Foundational power skills encompass soft skills, behavioral competencies, and personality traits essential for leaders, aspiring leaders, and team members alike. We’re talking with someone who is well known and loved by all the Velociteach team. He has developed 20 online products through Velociteach. This is Neal Whitten.

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How To Base Your Beliefs About Agile On Evidence

Scrum.org

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first? So where do you find it?

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Episode 169 – Knowledge Management – A Key Discipline of Top-performing Teams

Velociteach

Knowledge Management is a key practice for top-performing teams. And after a while, maybe three, four years, Lotus just became the name of a box, Lotus Software, rather than a very progressive, interesting software development firm. Do you read other magazines? The podcast by project managers for project managers. Being there.

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Topic Ideas and How to Succeed with Your Creative Agency Blog

Function Point

Now that you are hopefully convinced that it is worthwhile to start producing content online to highlight your expertise, we will present some key success factors that will help you develop a successful blogging strategy. Develop a content strategy: Make sure your content strategy aligns with your agency’s goals and values.

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6 Keys to Strategically Positioning your Creative Agency for Success

Function Point

Most creative agencies are very poor at bringing in new business for themselves. It is kind of ironic that agencies aren’t great at this, especially when you take into consideration that analyzing and developing client strategic plans is often on the list of what creative agencies offer and do well for their clients.