Brave New World
Project Management in a Brave New World Which level of proof do you require on your projects? Do you have […]
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The Hitchikers Guide to the PMBOK
“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they
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Adding value is as simple as taking that extra step…..
I was speaking to a fellow speaker (who was a developer from Germany). He was sharing that his company will be sending him to 15 conferences this year. I was amazed and impressed at the expense his company was investing in him. “Wow! Share with me what you are bringing back to them, that makes it worth their investment to continue to fund all these trips for you?” He looked confused. “I mean, what is there ‘return on investment’. What are they getting out of these funded trips. How are your trips accomplishing their business goals?”
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A Century of Scientific Management
Did you know Project Management is having a birthday? Well, sort of a birthday. It was 100 years ago, in
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Reality or Interpretation? You decide…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about communication and perception. A friend of mine has gone from team member to
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How do you handle the “pains in the necks” on your projects?
I recently was asked “How do you handle the “pains in the neck” at the office, home and social environments.
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Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
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Breaking the myths about language learning as an adult
1. If I just use music and media, may I give up studying grammar and vocabulary and quit my language
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Changing the way you think about foreign language learning
Do you think of foreign language learning as sitting in your boring, stuffy high school Spanish class repeating “Yo me
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Why should project managers speak another language?
Unfortunately, in many countries, especially English-language ones, foreign languages have not been taken seriously by educational institutions, parents and children.
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Some sage advise for your first day at a new job.
On our first day, we typically want to “prove ourselves”. We want to show that they made a great decision in hiring us. We feel the need to jump in and be productive right away. Although our intentions are very good, in our zeal to impress, we can even go a little overboard.
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