It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
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After many years of traversing the globe as a strategy consultant, family and health issues dictated a travel respite
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It wasn’t a surprise to me to find, for two years in a row, that our Study of Product Team
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Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on
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The most startling result coming out of this year’s just-released Study of Product Team Performance came in response to two
No One Believes in Waterfall Read More »
The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance is out! The results are not quite as across-the-board extraordinary as last year’s
The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance Read More »
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals.
What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree? Read More »
There are things in our professional careers that naturally scare us, but are required for advancement and continued growth. We are normally afraid of places we haven’t been before, things we haven’t tried before or subject matter that we know nothing about. If fear is a sign that we are pushing our envelop, then conquering that fear is a sign of real personal and professional growth.
So, how do we gather enough courage to take that next step?
How to do things that scare us. Read More »
By Laura Lee Rose, author of TimePeace: Making peace with time I had a vivid dream last night. In this
Asking the right question takes skill Read More »
This week we will take a short-cut into slapping ourselves back on the path. We won’t spend time investigating why and what took us off our course. Instead, we will jump into action with the idea of “doing one scary thing a day” to help keep up moving forward at a faster pace.
Do one scary thing a day. Read More »
Which is more effective to improve team performance: positive feedback or constructive criticism? a positive culture or a negative one?
Keep Your Culture Positive! Read More »