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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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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results. When your team is performing at its best, like your point guard in this example, each player contributes in whatever way adds the most value to the whole. For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy.

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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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

Johanna Rothman

Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Flow Metrics Help Everyone See Reality I wrote about the effect of delayed releases in Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take.

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Then, the person I spoke with said, “We would really appreciate you setting an example while you're here.” I'm sure you have more examples. Because the teams are not empowered.

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To Maintain Success, Sustain Leadership Disciplines

Makarios Consulting

In our work with thousands of leaders, three reasons bubble to the surface: leaders stop practicing good leadership disciplines because they get overconfident, distracted, or burned out. For example, a leader might neglect to consistently reiterate the company’s core values. Overconfidence stems from the feeling that “We made it!

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To Maintain Success, Sustain Leadership Disciplines

Makarios Consulting

In our work with thousands of leaders, three reasons bubble to the surface: leaders stop practicing good leadership disciplines because they get overconfident, distracted, or burned out. For example, a leader might neglect to consistently reiterate the company’s core values. Overconfidence stems from the feeling that “We made it!