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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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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Analytical skill sets also need to include: negotiating consulting communication developing others quantitative analysis Also, organizations need analytical leadership at every level, not just in the CTO or IT department. Culture Lever #3 : How leaders allocate resources and control costs. What gets resourced gets reinforced.

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Why Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails

LSA Global

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Getting succession planning right takes a lot of dedicated time, effort, resources. Why is that?