Cost – do we focus on it too much?
I’m looking for some insight from all of you on a point that’s been bothering me lately. On many recent
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Can We Teach Someone to Become a Good PM?
In the grand tradition of analytical thinking, the answer I start with is, “Maybe yes, maybe no.” On the Yes
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Project Management and Culture
A German colleague once commented (during a lager-filled post-project celebration) about how different German and US project management looked to
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Bad Luck, PC Hell and Healing From Grief
Risk management has always been tricky. It’s sometimes difficult to imagine the myriad ways in which something could go wrong
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Part 6 of 6 on Teamwork: How the PM can make or break the project’s teamwork
Today I wanted to tackle how project managers and their approach to that role can be seen as boon to
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Part 5 of 6 on Teamwork: Pervasive Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and Initiative
One of the things I’ve tried to do in this series is use some “word pictures”: ways of describing things
Part 4 of 6 on Teamwork: Bottom Lines – A tool for achieving interpersonal teamwork
A friend once emailed me with a burning question about “A Situation” with a particular team member. What had started
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Teamwork: Victims and Vanquishers (part 3 of 6 on observations on true teamwork)
My first two posts in this teamwork rumination (last week’s post here and yesterdays “part 2” here) set up the idea that
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More on “teamwork” – how individual team members’ knowing and doing makes the team
In a post last week I talked about “teamwork” not being a warm and fuzzy concept to me. To me the concept of
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New Perspectives in Project Management From A High School Library: Getting An A+ In Every Subject, Blog # 5
Welcome back to blog # 5 in the series. Today, for project management, we are going to look at a
New Perspectives in Project Management From The Second Grade Playground: # 4 = What SHAPE Is Your Leadership In?
Welcome back everyone to blog # 4: your opportunity to look in the mirror to see what you see about