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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

When managing a project, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is left; how efficiently your resources are utilized, etc. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them?

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Resource Efficiency Thinking Traps Many Managers And I said the managers were not stupid. They used resource efficiency to make project portfolio decisions. Resource efficiency focuses on each person's contribution to the whole.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Leadership behaviors guide actions, but a leader's character determines how and if the leader acts. Great leadership is a combination of competence, character, and commitment.

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Achieving Your Personal Best Leadership Results

Rick Conlow

What if you could achieve your personal best leadership results today? Or how can I use my leadership ability to be the best at what I do? Personal Best Leadership Exercise. Summarize the result: customer behavior, teamwork, bottom-line metrics. Attend leadership course, read new books, and listen to CDs or watch DVDs.

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Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change

LSA Global

Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change Orchestrating successful organizational change requires more than just a compelling strategic plan or a shift in business practices. Top leadership must be unified in their understanding of why change is necessary and what the desired outcome looks like.

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Leadership Tip 21: How to Know if People Are Working Hard

Johanna Rothman

That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking. Managers can check on that needing help business with flow metrics. But you can use flow metrics to know when people have too much WIP. Instead, ask people to measure their flow metrics. Even better, ask managers to measure their flow metrics.