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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

Liquid Planner Leadership

With the right software in place, making decisions on what to execute next, where to deploy resources and communicate to every stakeholder what to work on first will be easy. Planning is the fun part, and the hard part. Is it perfectly clear who is working on what? Can you see what work may be at risk for running over.

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How Do You Run a Business? – #MTtalk Roundup

Mind Tools Leadership

His work ethic was beyond reproach: he took calculated risks , hired good people, treated his employees well and his customers even better. ” Henry was also in the transport business, but had fallen on hard times. The arrangement worked well, for the first two years at least. Working ON the business is a leadership duty.

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Ask a Manager speed round

Alison Green

When I look back over the entirety of my working career (including serving at a restaurant in high school) to put bosses (and grandbosses with which I had regular interaction) into “good” versus “bad” categories, I can think of 2 really good bosses, 9 really bad bosses, and 5 neutral bosses. Your ankle blog.

Manager 105
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a behind-the-scenes look at how Ask a Manager runs

Alison Green

How do you decide which questions get posted on the blog? About 50 letters per weekday (much fewer on weekends – probably because people aren’t thinking about work as much then). How do you decide when to email someone back for more clarification, vs. answering the question “as-is”? How many questions come in a day? Definitely!

Manager 75
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2022’s Best Resource Management Software Comparisons

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Project resource management helps project management offices (PMOs) do their work more effectively and efficiently within the timeframe of a project. When the cost of working on the wrong thing is too high, resource management software can be the way to go. . Other types of resource management techniques . Increased turnover.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. If you’re working on anything interesting in this area, we’d love to hear from you! Thanks, Andrew.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. If you’re working on anything interesting in this area, we’d love to hear from you!