Personal Leadership
What comes to your mind if you hear the word “leadership”? When talking about leadership, people think of Jack Welch, […]
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Miscellaneous
3 Peak Performance Secrets
Originally posted on ConnectLeadership.com In this video I introduce research showing the benefits of 3 everyday things you can do
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Join a learning community of practice and develop your craft
The Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network (BayAPLN) is a nonprofit that was created in 2006 to develop, promote and
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Stuck in Space and Time
This week, in anticipation of Halloween, I asked several of my project management friends to give me their PM Horror
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Charting a path through uncertainty to reduce team anxiety
My parents live in Louisiana and unfortunately got hit hard by Hurricane Gustav a few weeks ago. Their home was
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Knowledge Management for Virtual (and non-virtual) Teams
Properly managed project documentation is critical for all types and sizes of projects. After all, the project documentation is the
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What is a Risk?
By Frank Mangini Project management and risk management are two sides of the same coin. Projects cannot exist without risk.
The rise (and fall?) of the PMO
Michael Hammer, in his initial article on re-engineering, evaluated the historic patterns of organizing work. His assertion was that in
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Whiteboarding for Virtual Teams
One of the most useful things I have learned leading teams is that pictures are a very effective way to
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Inspire…Challenge…Transform: some definitely do it all!
Phil Messina, a project manager at HP, volunteered to document the PMI Norcal Symposium 2008. Here is his report. Randy
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Multi-Tasking in Project Meetings
In my many years in the technology industry, I’ve spent thousands of hours in meetings, most of them as boring
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