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How To Skip The Apology Tour Portion Of Your Project

How To Skip The Apology Tour Portion Of Your Project

Until a few years ago, Evan Blake made about $300,000 a year selling corporate software with a formula straight out of Mad Men. Working for companies such a Cisco Systems and BMC Software, he’d use connections and charm to land a few meetings a year...

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July 22, 2015 Bruce Benson Innovation No Comment

How To Get The Project Management Data We Need

Get The Project Management Tool Data You Need

In the article "Get the Schedule Right" one of the key items is to know the history of how our organization has performed in the past. As simple as this is to say, it can be very difficult to do in practice. Here are three successful techniques for getting the project management tool data we need.

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January 25, 2011 Bruce Benson Planning 5 Comments

One More Way To Fight E-mail Infoglut: Talk!

Balance using your e-mail project management tool with talking one-on-one to key people, but beware of overdoing talking in person.

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November 30, 2009 Bruce Benson Communication No Comment

Don’t Treat Your E-mails As Dead Skeletal Husks!

My article on e-mail infoglut resulted in a pointer from DoddsSimon to Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann. Merlin takes classic time management ideas and applies them to e-mail. One notion he presents is that much of your e-mail becomes "dead skeletal husks" and can be thrown away. I'm going to suggest instead that your "old" e-mail can be a great project management tool.

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November 24, 2009 Bruce Benson Communication, Time Management 4 Comments

Five Techniques For Overcoming E-Mail Infoglut

IEEE Spectrum ran an article on "Infoglut" in October 2009. The article was light on specific techniques to manage "Infoglut", so here are five related to e-mail that I've found useful for the project manager, or any manager for that matter.

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November 20, 2009 Bruce Benson Time Management 1 Comment

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