Strategy Execution through Project Success
– a case for project metrics. The right metric, driving the right behavior aligned with the right strategy. Think of […]
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Prototype your way to Real
When project managing for innovation and change, three important steps are getting great inspiration, having an effective idea generation session, and then moving your ideas forward with prototyping. Consider your personal and organizational prototyping practices: do you prototype across a wide range of levels, from rough to real? Do you prototype both your tangible and intangible concepts, as you might for service design and organizational change? Take a look at the following post to imagine your path this year on what and how to prototype – for yourself or across your company.
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Ten Lessons Countdown – 10, 9, 8
Career Lessons 10, 9, 8 – Vacation, Balance and Change As I pointed out in my earlier blog, we will
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Ten Years, Ten Lessons – My Top 10 Career Lessons of the last decade
Can you believe we are heading into 2011? Imagine that! It seems that every year goes by faster than the
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What’s Retail got to do with Project Management?
While you are shopping the holiday sales, and fighting the crowds, do you ever wonder what it takes to get
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When fully understanding the problem is a “bad thing”.
Raleigh has many lovely parks and lakes in the area. One such lovely and convenient lake is Shelly Lake at
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Interrupting is a two way street.
Everyone has complained about being interrupted. People have interrupted our conversations, our tasks, even physically (i.e. being cut in line, in traffic, beepers, texting, instance messaging).
On the other hand, everyone has interrupted. Everyone does it. Find out why, and how to manage around it.
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Effective Meeting Management: Tips to use at any meeting
In a previous blog (“Effective meeting management skills are not only for the board room”), I shared a story illustrating
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Effective meeting management skills are not only for the board room
Effective meeting management skills are not just for the board room. Everyone could benefit from these useful tips. Check out
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Use the Parking Lot Method for easy flowing conversations and meetings.
Have you ever been in a meeting or conversation in which the conversation starts to stray off course? Have you
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Find ways to have your cake and eat it too.
In this discussion, I cover some quick tips for Work/Life Balance. One of the tricks to a positive Work/Life Balance
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