Lacework

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities. Dr. Anand Singh blends exceptional cybersecurity leadership with academic brilliance.

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2022

Leadership efficiency is a career-long commitment. They trust their leadership team. That’s why it’s important to build a talented leadership team and to trust its members to handle specific delegated tasks. That’s why it’s important to build a talented leadership team and to trust its members to handle specific delegated tasks.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. Encourage product managers to spend most of their time on “strategy” and “planning” Make it hard/impossible for engineers and product manager to use the product internally. The outcome It's a hard job to pull it off!

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Today’s guest post is b y Kim Wasson, a principal at thought LEADERS and author of The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills That Prevent Hard Days (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2023

Recommended project management practices would suggest door #3. If you want the project to succeed, #3 it is. They understand that negotiation is what happens before the project starts. Business IT Alignment, IT Consulting Services, IT Leadership, IT Strategy But #3 is often politically impossible. What to do?

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Since I was adept at project management, I was asked to head the IT department for one of the small subsidiaries of TATA organization. For instance, the IRCTC online booking portal came into India well before tech giants like Amazon and was responsible for many of the mainframes that started the planning and scheduling of trains.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Leadership Driven Method to Performance Management can help senior leaders in the public and not-for-profit sectors make informed decisions and meet their strategic goals. . Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2023

In terms of book recommendations, Alex highlighted a few books that are not technical but focused on leadership, including “Good Strategy and Bad Strategy” and “Radical Candor.” Alex found these books valuable as they provide actionable advice applicable to any team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In many leadership forums, many leadership books, and not a few social media memes, what I’m about to say would be skewered, and yet… your credibility and influence depend on it. What is this leadership heresy?

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Perficient

DECEMBER 26, 2023

billion), music ($43 billion), and book publishing ($26.8 Years ago, I found the book series by Jean-Marie Dru and it immediately hit home for me. When I was in high school, I recall an assignment where each student in the class was given a character from a book we had just read, and we each wrote an essay on our character.

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Agile42

AUGUST 11, 2023

Enter cross-functional teams, a dynamic approach to project management and problem-solving that is transforming the way businesses operate. When departments work in isolation, this can lead to communication breakdowns and a lack of shared vision, as well as inefficiencies that hinder growth. What are Cross-Functional Teams?

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Evolution4all

MARCH 15, 2023

Our Digital Transformation Framework is the subject of my latest book Adapt which outlines an iterative process based on the five pillars of my ADAPT Methodology®. Agile Leadership & Mindset Many people struggle to understand why adopting the Agile Leadership and mindset is so hard for executive managers and leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

And, ultimately we were able to work together as we brought a leadership development program to her company. Your book made explicit a lot of things I’ve been doing intuitively and highlighted some places I can step up and do even better. Those conversations sparked an important friendship. ” Your turn.

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Coveros

OCTOBER 4, 2023

To drive agility, organizations should look to shift from a project management to a value management model. Sanjiv’s new book with Roland Cuellar and Audrey Scheer is called “ From PMO to VMO: Managing for Value Delivery.” In it, Sanjiv argues for the need to focus on value as a means to drive agility.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2023

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer. Embrace FinOps.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If you’ve checked my other blog posts , I tend to focus on innovation , creativity , corporate culture , project management , and organizational change management. I didn’t read many non-fiction books until I was in my thirties. I was brought in as a company leader, and the leadership knew about the issue.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sam Adeyemi, author of Dear Leader: Your Flagship Guide to Successful Leadership (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Here is something not every leader is ready to hear: You are the most powerful force behind the positivity in your workplace.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architects need several soft skills to be successful, including communication, problem-solving, critical thinking, leadership, and teamwork. Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance Frameworks, IT Leadership, IT Strategy Artificial intelligence (AI). Top certifications for enterprise architects.

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QAspire

MARCH 11, 2014

Supervisors commanded and controlled others and leadership was often equated with “taking power”. Mary Parker Follett defined management as “ the art of getting things done through people ” and collaborative leadership embodies and extends this belief. When required, they collaborated in person.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

Kotter in his book Accelerate says he has never seen a long term successful agile transformation with waterfall leadership. At recent agile conferences with over 200 people in sessions, I asked how many agile transformations had waterfall leadership. Agile Leadership Means Executive Participation. Why is that?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2014

In the project management arena, it’s been established that projects are better carried out by teams, and teams nowadays can be dispersed geographically, hence, the growing prevalence of cloud-based project management software to keep these teams connected. Needless to say, they don’t need to be downloaded.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Others start as project managers — IT, product development, logistics, and many other types of projects — and realize that project management without change management is often fruitless.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Leadership and motivation are practically synonymous in certain sectors. Speaking in a business sense, leadership can be defined in a number of ways. Or it could be a lack of trust within their department and how they feel their opinions have no bearing with a project? Leadership is about listening and reacting.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Starting project without 102% clarity (100% clarity on scope/technology and 2% knowledge of how you can add value).

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

We need that kind of leadership. CIOs also have tremendous experience with running projects and initiatives that are run from a project management perspective, where they can use the proper business case and can think of the risk mitigation. Generative AI, IT Leadership

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. I can’t say I’ve met anyone with your level of understanding for authentic, compassionate leadership. So if you have a leadership or management related question, you can send that to me.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Each team is typically working on just one client project at any given time. We strongly believe in autonomous, self-managed teams that are agile and constantly evolving to improve their effectiveness. In shaping our team structures, we have borrowed many ideas from the book. What range of services do you provide?

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QAspire

JULY 25, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect A few weeks back, my friend Becky Robinson at Mountain State University gifted me with a copy of John C. Maxwell’s latest book “ Everyone Communicates, Few Connect ”. Tags: Book review , communication lessons , John C. Don’t Kill It!

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

An expert on digital transformation, leadership, and innovation, John Rossman is the bestselling author of three books, including The Amazon Way , which translates Amazon’s leadership and tactics into actionable steps that businesses can apply to accelerate their digital transformations.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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The Daily WTF

MAY 12, 2021

What does a company who builds project management and communications tools, who changed their name from 37 Signals in 2014, have to do with adventure sports? Second, Basecamp had ~60 employees as of two weeks ago, but has written 5 books on management (!!). They wrote five books on leadership damn it!

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We were working on an important project, and there was a problem. As the Project Manager, I had many hours of meetings with all the key players involved, and diligently forged a consensus on a proposed course of action – so we could present it to our boss that day with a united front. I know, it’s leadership 101, right?

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Today’s guest post is b y Joshua Berry, author of Dare to Be Naive: How to Find Your True Self in a Noisy World (CLICK HERE to get your copy). In a small, dimly lit workshop, a skilled blacksmith once molded raw iron into finely crafted tools.

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