How to Lead Effectively. Video Blog 3
How can you lead effectively when you’re promoted? You have 2 ears and 1 mouth, so use them in that […]
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Team Leadership
You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
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Keeping an external job offer alive
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
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Keeping an internal job offer alive
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
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Taking Responsibility: what dog training can teach us about management
After many years of traversing the globe as a strategy consultant, family and health issues dictated a travel respite
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Onboarding: Critical Success Factor (and mostly overlooked!)
It wasn’t a surprise to me to find, for two years in a row, that our Study of Product Team
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The most convincing reason to change from waterfall to agile
Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on
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No One Believes in Waterfall
The most startling result coming out of this year’s just-released Study of Product Team Performance came in response to two
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The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance
The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance is out! The results are not quite as across-the-board extraordinary as last year’s
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What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals.
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How to do things that scare us.
There are things in our professional careers that naturally scare us, but are required for advancement and continued growth. We are normally afraid of places we haven’t been before, things we haven’t tried before or subject matter that we know nothing about. If fear is a sign that we are pushing our envelop, then conquering that fear is a sign of real personal and professional growth.
So, how do we gather enough courage to take that next step?
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