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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

Because you have nothing better to do with your time and resources? Projects become “cost centers,” and everyone knows that organizational cost centers have a much harder time getting resources than “profit centers.” And we are going to get that value from the product or service that is delivered at the project’s completion.

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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. One emotion that often defines work is stress. Stress is an emotional contagion. Organizational Talent Consulting.

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Music for Motivation and Resilience

Harmonious Workplaces

Indeed, studies have found that group music performance, especially when under the guidance of a leader, can help individuals navigate uncertainty and distractions within a system of resilience (Glowinski et al, 2016). I have found that my experience as a music maker places me in a performance role in my mind with certain songs I hear.

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Servant Leaders Achieve Extraordinary Results

Rick Conlow

Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. In addition, research by Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu (2016) showed an additional 12% gain in outcomes beyond other studies.

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow

Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. AS9100 is an international standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry, which aims to improve safety and reliability of aerospace products. Competition at the domestic and international markets. Customer satisfaction. .

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Leadership character is shown to align the leader-follower relationship, increasing both leader and follower productivity, effectiveness, and creativity. If you are unsure where to begin, research-based books and articles like those mentioned and cited in this post can be great resources. doi:10.1108/ICT-04-2016-0020 Seijts, G.,