Taking time for powerful just-in-time learning
Jeff and I are posting this week about different ways to effectively learn new project skills, including the value of […]
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What the pros know – leaps in ability, consistent performance
Jeff talked yesterday about the value of practicing new tools and skills, to truly master them for application in the
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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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A final bonus post on Great PMs – notes on the leadership persona
I have come to believe that leadership is really about what you do and influence others to do, rather than primarily
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Great Career Options for Great PMs
I wanted to do my last big post on bridging from these ideas of what constitutes a great PM to what
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Great PMs – Perfection not a requirement, flexibility and fit a must
Today I want to tackle a couple of typical questions I hear about what a great PM needs to be
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Executive Views on Being a Great PM – Part 2
Continuing my observations on what executives value – what THEY think makes a great PM. First, by contrast, it’s interesting
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Executive Views on Being a Great PM – Part 1
So what DO executives think of us as project managers and what do they value? I know from conferences and
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Aspects of Being a Great Project Manager
This week I’ll be writing about what it means to be a great project manager – from the perspective of my
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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