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Let Your Teams Design Their Own Approaches to Agile If you are thinking of agile as part of a program, each team has to have its own approach to agile because each team has its own risks and problems. If you treat people as adults, explain the desired results, and provide training and other resources they need, they are likely to succeed. |
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Multiple Views of What It Means to Treat People with Respect Treating employees, coworkers, and superiors with respect is a key component of good management. But did you ever stop to think that respect can mean different things to different people? Read on to discover the varying ways people can show respect. You might learn something about your team. |
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Can You Have Too Much Communication? In matters of communication, more is not necessarily better. Sure, too little communication can result in low morale, confusion, and mistakes, but too much communication can be just as bad. If everyone is busy communicating, no one is getting work done. Read on to learn about quality communication. |
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Management Fads and How to Avoid Them When a new management fad comes along, it may sound great and gain rapid acceptance. Some organizations do succeed using a popular new concept—but sustaining it takes time, training, effort, money, and high-level support, and several of these are often lacking. Learn how to spot a fad in the making. |
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Humility in the Workplace Google recently shared a list of five hiring attributes that it deems important for its employees. Interestingly, one of the attributes is intellectual humility. Anuj Magazine examines humility in the workplace and looks at recent examples from Microsoft and Google. |
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How to Hire a Versatile, Effective Learner Hiring based on the specific skill set your team uses now seems like a good idea, but what about a year from now? Will you have moved on to new technology or practices, and will your new hire be left in the dust? It's better for the long-term health of your company to hire a quick, adaptive learner. |
