Coaching and Mentoring PMs
What else do we need to do besides providing training and a supporting culture to project managers? We need coaching and mentoring! How do we go about it setting such an environment?
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Developing New Project Managers, Take II
What’s the role of the culture in developing project managers? Is it important? What do we need to do to make sure that the development of PMs is supported?
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Developing New Project Managers
How do you develop a team of inexperienced PMs? A brief set of ideas here.
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Myth #3: Great minds think alike
In keeping with the theme of innovation and my quest to quash myths that hinder it, I wanted to address
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Myth #2: History repeats itself
In my previous post, I put out my take on how innovation and discovery come from thinking out-of-the-box, and by
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Myth #1: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
Say what? I can’t tell you how many times I hear this, and it bugs me to no end.
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Three myths I’d like to bust..
One of my resolutions this year was to make a list of all the typical workplace myths from various sources
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Systems Thinking 4: Complex, Not Complicated
On a recent trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival I spotted a whole mess of geese flying overhead, so I
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Systems Thinking 3: Can We Learn From Insects?
Studying chaos, complexity, and non-linear systems has taught me that control is an illusion – and sometimes completely unnecessary. Complicated
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Systems Thinking 2: Activity=Progress
The recent economic woes, and accompanying 10% official unemployment rate, have a lot of my friends looking for work. Down-sized,
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Systems Thinking 1: Wholeness, Not Parts
Long before I knew what “it” was, I was doing “it” – systems thinking, that is. I’ve been thinking and
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