Certification Is Useful But Not For The Reasons We Think
I remember a candidate once presented me page after page of certifications, each in its acetate protector, neatly organized in a faux-leather binder.
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How To Avoid Chaos In Our Discussions
When we have two people talking about the same thing in a different way, we have chaos pre-programmed.
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Inexperience Can Be Our Greatest Asset
Go for it. Your inexperience can be your greatest asset.
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Studying Both Good and Bad Projects Ensures Our Success
Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was constantly visiting competitor’s stores to see what they were doing. This same idea can help our projects be successful.
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Don’t Wait Forever To Hire The Perfect Expert
We may be missing opportunities by attempting to hire the perfect person.
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Practicing To Fail In Order To Succeed Big
"You need to have more ‘gotcha’ fees, that’s how airlines make their money." Maybe Dogbert was on to something?
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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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Use Bad Situations To Make Good Project Management Changes
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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Do We Manage Projects By Intuition or by Methodology?
What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?
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Senior Manager It Is OK Not To Be An Expert Which Is Why You Have A Project Manager
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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Are We Project Managing Or Sending In The Clowns?
Ways we try to help but actually undermine the project. As a senior manager, try to avoid these. As the project manager, try and manage around them if we can not get relief otherwise.
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Project Manager Who Is Really In Charge Of Your Project?
The project manager needs to take charge of their project. Allowing “strong personalities” or other persons (even your boss) to effectively take charge of the project is a recipe for failure. Here is how we did it.
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Do You Spend More Time With Your Eagles or With Your Turkeys?
Managers spend all their time with their “best” folks and let their “under-performers” just kind of exist. This may be misguided if we want to significantly improve our performance.
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Project Managers Quit Talking Jargon To Our Customers
Project management is often about learning to communicate in another language. I’m not talking about a national language, but instead the language of the industry or domain that we are working in.
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Project Managers Get The Communications Right!
Project management is often about getting people to do the things we need them to do. Here is how we got people to better follow policy by improving how we communicated and how we can apply this to managing projects.
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