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Japan Tragedy – Rapid Change
This is the final post in my series exploring post-quake Japan. While I’ve enjoyed many aspects of working with Japanese
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What remote managers need to know about staying on top of remote and global employees.
Last article we discussed some of the down-side to working remotely (either from home or from an off-site office). We discussed some techniques an employee can stay in the spotlight, even when they are not located in the same site as their reporting manager, cohorts or those making the salary decisions. Today, we’ll cover the challenges and solutions from the managerial position.
A primary concern for a manager is : as your team starts to grow apart in location, how do I assure the team doesn’t also “grow apart as a team”. How does one keep a cohesive workforce across both distance and time zones?
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Putting Your Family Plan Into Action
Stage 3 – Plans are great fun, but without action it’s just a waste of a bunch of postnotes. Take
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Traditional versus Agile — false war?
On this theme of Conventional Wisdom…. Not too long ago I was hearing lots of things about Agile. Most of
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Conventional Wisdom?
I have been lucky enough to witness (and in some cases be a part of) several overturns of conventional wisdom.
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Innovating Across Countries
Innovation seems to be at the top of everyone’s mind in conceiving, planning, developing, and managing projects around the world.
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Change Leadership?
We’ve all experienced change. In fact, we lead and manage change everyday as project and program managers. Anita Wotiz did
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Practical Change Management
That requirements will change is a given. How you plan for and manage that change is crucial. Think about what
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Practical Software Practices
At my last company we took pride in the amount of work we were able to accomplish with a very
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See The Opportunity – Seize the Opportunity
I just returned from hearing Carly Fiorini (former CEO of HP) speak at Celebrity Forum. She defined leaders as those who
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