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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

During the three-day outage, they learned: Because the deployment team felt pressure to deploy, they didn't read the documentation carefully enough. Or, the person must adhere to onerous policies, especially for travel, to get reimbursed. This is a part of the series of intermittent leadership tips.

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Project Management Areas You Need to Rethink

PM Alliance

On-demand e-learning, for example, offers tangible value value for workers who prefer not to travel or who would feel hamstrung by the pace of traditional courses led by an instructor in real-time. It can also be a useful option to trim travel expenses and minimize downtime, further enabling cost efficiency and productivity.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

The proposal price is important enough to get much of the attention of most company leadership teams. A collaborative Government contracts pricing team has the strong encouragement of company and proposal team leadership as well as solid practices, particularly to get going earlier in the process than most of their competitors.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Organizational Talent Consulting

The ultimate goal of executive coaching is a positive transformation in life and leadership for the client (e.g., The benefits of investing in executive coaching are well documented. Typically leadership coaching includes using a 360-degree assessment to improve feedback and awareness for the client. The Leadership Quarterly.

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The Leadership Clash That Led Colombia to Vote Against Peace

Harvard Business

It was also a leadership clash between two political figures with different proposals for the country, and with their own vanities. Whether he’s traveling to the Amazon jungle or the vast tropical “llanos” plain, or even to the coast, he fails to find the language to connect and to provoke empathy.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S. To reduce overhead, or to cut costs, or to increase efficiency, you decide to contract out (outsource) some or all of your IT work. Is There a Shortage of Technical Skills in the U.S.?