Leading Orgs – Only Octopi Need Apply
Leading organizations is like leading a swarm of bees. You can’t directly control what’s going on, and the statistics indicate […]
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Communications
Leading One-on-One
If you are going to lead hordes of peeps someday you’d better start by being able to lead a single
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Managing a Multi-Team Matrix
As the scope of your projects expands, you’ll need to engage teams, not just individuals, from around the world to
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The Project Culture Cunundrum
The challenge of managing virtual projects is amplified by a complexity factor equal to the number of cultures represented on
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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate!!!
Sorry, no direct correlation will be made to the Captain in Cool Hand Luke. Oh well, same topic (sorta). Project
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Cutting to the Chase on Organizational Maturity
Jim Sloane is a particularly adept person to provide an executive primer on organizational project management maturity. There are a
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What is Your Leadership Style?
PMI Silicon Valley (www.pmisv.org) and Insights Learning and Development (www.insights.com) have partnered on a study to identify the current strengths
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An unrepeatable success?
Back in the very old days (early 80’s), I was on a team (of 24, I think) that delivered a
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Saying No
Saying “no” is hard for everyone. “If I say “no”, they will think I’m not a team player.” “If I
A Penny for Your Thoughts?
The latest San Francisco magazine contains an article on a new platform called Mugsy and a company, Pure Verticals, that
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A PM’s Toolbox Tour: Top Tray
The top tray of my project management toolbox has three compartments which hold my Chimes, Linked Lists and Open Channel. Tibetan
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