For Lasting Success Find A Higher Purpose
Money, promotions and recognition are fine motivators but it won’t last or it will be empty unless we contribute to more than just our own well being.
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How To Know When To Make Things Tougher Or Easier
Discipline while developing new technology might be different than optimizing current production.
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This Is Fundamental To Your Success
Thirty years later, it was almost verbatim what jack Welch was still saying.
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You’ve Got To Do This Daily
There is a simple notion I’ve often noticed. If I personally don’t do something regularly, then it doesn’t matter how simple it is, I will not “get it.”
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Project Managers How To Adopt The Language Of Your Customer
How we came to better understand our customer's challenges and how it helped us to better help them.
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History Shows Us How To Innovate Successfully
"How did you do that so fast?" I cheated back then, and these kinds of cheats (innovations) still work just fine today.
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Don’t Be Taken for Granted Be Brutally Honest
"Put another way, if you deliver the goods consistently but too quietly, you may find yourself and your organization taken for granted." The SecretCIO.
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Project Managers We Can Get Too Close to The Action And That’s Not Good
"The problem is I’m sitting up in the stands, I’m not down in the driver’s seat where I can do something." Is this really what we want as project managers?
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If Our Project Management Crisis Is Obvious To Everyone Then It Is Too Late To Fix It
Denial was no longer a managerial option. It was a bit scary, but at the end of the day we executed on the plan. We delivered on what we said we should do.
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How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results
Is our project management organization in a place where it makes decisions that leaves us wondering "what were we thinking?"
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Project Manager Is The Instant-On War Room Our Solution To Get The Information We Need?
The old IT way was to figure out which reports people wanted and deliver it to them weeks or days later. Here instead are a few ways that actually work.
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Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious
It is often too easy to focus on the obvious stuff and not on what it is we really need to be doing.
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Project Manager If We Have Too Many Meetings We May Be The Problem
Too many meetings is often a symptom of a bigger problem and won't be solved with ... more meetings.
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Why We Don’t Really Need All Those Experts
To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.
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Why Project Management Metrics Often Fail and How Yours Can Succeed
How many times have we measured something and it came out to not mean much of anything to anyone? Pay attention to what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.
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