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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilful Sailor
In Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide (Project Management Institute, 2013), change management is presented as an essential organizational capability that cascades across and…
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Engaging your team to greater project performance
Managers and executives have understood the importance of employee engagement for the last two decades, however, many engagement programs are falling short of the desired goal. According to a recent…
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Motivational tactics and techniques for largely volunteer - based organizations
Organizations largely comprised of volunteers present challenges and uncertainties, and often managers find that the motivational techniques used effectively with traditional paid employees are not…
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Creating environments for project teams to thrive
As a growing number of organizations recognize the value of project management and strive to incorporate it into their business operations, the difficulty of creating the most conducive environment…
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Developing superior project teams at NASA
Although there is widespread belief that overall project success is often heavily based on an effective team, there is no empirical evidence to support this belief. In this paper, the author…
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This IS your grandfather's project management: Building a trust-based team
A project team lacking trust is not really a team; rather, it is just a group of people, working together, often struggling with issues, missing deadlines, and having disappointing results. Without…
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The human factor in project management
One of the biggest challenges to successful project implementation is the evolution of the project team. The challenge of taking a diverse group of individuals, with varying backgrounds and…
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Why some teams flop, while other teams rock!
No other single factor has as much predictive power of the success or failure of your projects and programs than the health of your teams. Today, more and more work is being performed by teams, both…
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Diversity and team performance: Selecting your traveling squad
All too frequently, organizational leaders tend to define diversity in very conventional terms, focusing on selection processes for hiring and promoting, and doing so in a way that is fair and open…
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Leadership and team dynamics in the new millennium
There is a pronounced shift in the demands confronting organizational leadership, and these changes are a reflection of shifts in the global marketplace. With globalization, companies need to…
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