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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

Our project management consultants often need to help clients navigate resource challenges, whether during the initial planning phase or after the project has moved into the execution stage. Funding may be the first thing that comes to mind, but many teams also struggle to manage scarcities related to personnel, knowledge, and time.

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Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. They’re Not.

Harvard Business

For one, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do — and this behavior is often reinforced by their peers. This is hardly an effective way to motivate people and help them grow, and it can result in wasted time, money, and energy. questioning.

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Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn.

Harvard Business

For one thing, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do. Recently, my colleagues and I conducted a study that shows that most managers don’t understand what coaching really is — and that also sheds light on how to fix the problem. questioning.

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How to Get Your Side Hustle Off the Ground

Harvard Business

The first step, as articulated in the Lean Startup methodology, should always be to run a small, inexpensive test to see if there’s preliminary interest (a “ minimum viable product ”). Time management issues. Instead, it’s more commonly a problem of managing the time we do have.

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

By randomizing which users are in which group, you minimize the chances that other factors, like mobile versus desktop, will drive your results on average. In the example above with colors and size, it might mean showing different groups: a large red button, a small red button, a large blue button, and a small blue button.

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