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What do they have in common?
Think about Google and Net Apps. Now think about the Ritz-Carlton Resort-Hotel Chain, Best Buy, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Wynn Hotels. What do they all have in common?
It’s how they treat their people.
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Appreciation… the Final Frontier
After years and years of Project Management it finally became obvious to me there was someone or something I wasn’t addressing. No, I’m not talking about all the usual people project management challenges all those references mention, or even some they don’t mention.
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Avoiding Communication Pitfalls
Ugh, the communication pitfall. We’ve all fallen into them. The question is, can you get out? Or better still, can you avoid them next time? Here are a few common ones:
Our product spec change discussions happened over email, and now I can’t tell what we decided on, much less find the supporting material!
I seem to [...]
The Making of Scrappy Project Management
On Oct. 9 we had the launch of my new book “Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces”
Well over 150 scrappy people joined us for the scrappiest book launch in the history of “Happy About” books, my publisher (www.happyabout.com). I was more than a little relieved, because [...]
