Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Managing extended R&D projects comes with its unique challenges, with even the popular agile method struggling in such contexts. Drawing from a recent significant build at Lattice, an HR software startup, three key factors emerge as essential for success in managing large projects.

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Kainexus

AUGUST 16, 2022

Organizations that wish to achieve operational excellence through continuous improvement execute many discrete projects to achieve this aim. The key to success is a structured approach to improvement and project management that helps every person in the organization contribute to positive change.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership In the dynamic landscape of corporate leadership, emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a critical component of effective management and strategic vision. This section introduces the concept of emotional intelligence and underscores its significance in leadership roles.

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APRIL 12, 2024

Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Emotional intelligence has become a cornerstone in the realm of leadership development, recognized for its pivotal role in enhancing a leader’s effectiveness. Conflict Management Effective leaders use EQ to resolve disputes constructively.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 9, 2024

Importance of Trust in Leadership In the realm of leadership, trust is not just a soft skill—it’s the very foundation upon which successful teams are built. Why Trust is Vital in Leadership Trust in leadership is the cornerstone of team cohesion and effectiveness.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Understanding Experiential Intelligence (XQ) The concept of Experiential Intelligence (XQ) is increasingly gaining recognition in the sphere of leadership development. Importance of Experiential Intelligence in Leadership Development In the context of leadership development, XQ plays a vital role in shaping highly effective leaders.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking is a critical element in the leadership toolkit, essential for steering organizations towards long-term success. By integrating this approach into your leadership style, you can expect to: Enhance decision-making capabilities, ensuring that every choice aligns with long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking is a critical element in the leadership toolkit, essential for steering organizations towards long-term success. By integrating this approach into your leadership style, you can expect to: Enhance decision-making capabilities, ensuring that every choice aligns with long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Culture is shaped by a variety of factors, including the company’s mission, leadership styles, policies, work environment, and the behavior modeled by those at the top. As a leader, you are in a powerful position to shape and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There are five reasons that large projects fail. Wrong projects are ones that defy conventional business rationale, creating outputs that either few people want, that add little to no real value, or that undershoot the desired benefits because they are so difficult to achieve.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Defining Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity to recognize, control, and assess emotions in oneself and others. Often described as the ability to manage emotions effectively, EI is a critical asset for leaders in any organization.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 20, 2020

Starting exploration projects. Managing the portfolio and stage-gates. Killing the weaker projects. They are all important but I believe that the most vital is #8 – the ability to kill off the weaker projects. If you start 20 projects it is likely that you are going to have to eliminate at least 17 or 18 of them.

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Planview

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It’s true for all disciplines and describes the project portfolio management (PPM) market for several reasons. The market’s landmark evolution in 2020, which bifurcated PPM to support strategic portfolio management and adaptive project management. The pandemic’s impact on the labor market and the rise in burnout.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Introduction to High Performance Leadership Teams Defining High Performance Leadership Teams High performance leadership teams are those that not only achieve outstanding results but also sustain these levels of success over time. It’s the bedrock upon which innovative and collaborative teams are built.

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a nutshell, a mature business unit or project with no innovation headroom shouldn't be kept alive. Focus on growth, not projects. Or rather, fall in love only with projects that are likely to deliver growth”. How to manage all those perspectives toward an outcome? – Investments and resources can thus be reallocated.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 14, 2023

Innov8rs | Despite its importance, innovation project governance is often handled ineffectively, slowing down rather than driving innovation. Innovation project governance is a decision-making discipline where organizational leaders decide which ideas to pursue, how to allocate the innovation budget, and how to assign resources.

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CMOE

MAY 4, 2023

Statistics show that 70% of projects fail to deliver desired results and 42% of organizations don’t even understand the importance of project management—but they also show that 73% of organizations that use a formal project-management approach always or often have met their goal.

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Planview

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today we’re going to look at how a global biotech company used biotech project management software to drive greater business value. “We use Planview’s solutions to ensure projects in distress are getting the help they need.” “We use Planview’s solutions to ensure projects in distress are getting the help they need.”

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Importance of Leadership Team Offsites Leadership team offsites play a pivotal role in shaping the future of an organization. Strategic planning offsites are a significant investment in your leadership team’s development and your company’s future.

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Brunner

AUGUST 17, 2023

At Brunner, we embrace a “player/coach” management style, actively involving ourselves in the process. Our leadership philosophy draws inspiration from servant leadership, which focuses on serving others, supporting their growth, and fostering an inclusive and empowering work environment. com) in 2011.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. Active listening is a vital aspect of emotional intelligence and a key component of effective leadership.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most critical factors in the success of an innovation project: if you outsource all of the work on your innovation projects, they will fail. Innovation as Leadership and Professional Development. You can’t outsource the important things.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Understanding the Leadership Balance Stepping into a leadership role is akin to becoming a gardener.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 18, 2019

It is easy to talk about failure as a good thing in innovation projects. However, what about situations when it is not only you that is being impacted by the failure of a project or experiment? You also need support from leadership, to develop a culture where experiments aren’t punished in performance reviews.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

Understanding Experiential Intelligence for Leadership Development Experiential Intelligence (XQ) is increasingly recognized as a powerful driver in shaping effective leaders. By honing their XQ, they can better understand the intricacies of leadership challenges and respond with well-informed, strategic decisions.

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Leadership Training Engagement Learning 100

Flying Fish Lab

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’re going to focus on two particular ones that we pay particular attention to during the set up stage of any project. Alternatively, for larger projects, we’ll split documents across the team and work separately (so that no one person has a complete overview).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A key part of your job as project leader is to keep your team motivated and on track when things start to go sideways. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies to try if you need to boost your team’s morale: 1) Re-establish or re-define the project purpose, goals, and vision. 3) Help remove obstacles.

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Project Strategy Strategy Collaboration 102

Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

It encompasses the values, beliefs, and behaviors that determine how a company’s employees and management interact and handle outside business transactions. Let’s explore how to define the desired culture that aligns with your business goals and the role leadership plays in this pivotal change.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Power tools: Power tools are used when collaborators have little to no agreement on what the goal for a particular project is or should be and how to achieve the goal. This is where leadership tools could be used. Management tools are the most common set of tools used. There are four main cooperation tools.

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CMOE

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many types of leadership styles out there. Here, we’ll discuss two specific styles: directive and supportive leadership. One is not objectively better than the other—it all depends on your work culture, the people you manage, and the situations you encounter. Directive Leadership. Supportive Leadership.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Managing multiple projects, budgets, and tasks is essential for a manager to be effective, but these responsibilities shouldn’t overshadow the importance of team morale and engagement. In this post, we’ll explore the essence of team drive and how to motivate your team as a project manager. Reduces absenteeism.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Innovation projects often fail because innovation teams, management, leadership and operations are not aligned on what success actually looks like.

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Innov8rs

MARCH 4, 2023

During our recent Innov8rs Learning Lab on Innovation Strategy, Leadership, Governance & Portfolio Management, we asked Christian Stumpf (Co-Founder & Program Manager TenneT PowerLab at Tennet) these questions. How to make them work? What is the best way to maximize their potential?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 19, 2024

As an executive or team leader, understanding and enhancing your virtual team’s productivity is vital to the success of your projects and overall business goals. Leadership and management : How virtual team management practices influence team morale and motivation.

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