soft-skills – Page 7 – Silicon Valley Project Management

What do they have in common?

By ArLyne Diamond / January 23, 2009

Think about Google and Net Apps. Now think about the Ritz-Carlton Resort-Hotel Chain, Best Buy, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and […]

By ArLyne Diamond / January 18, 2009

Hi, It’s my time to blog again – and this is my birthday week – so I am going to

By ArLyne Diamond / November 25, 2008

In the past, both here and in my own newsletters (Diamonds to You) I’ve written about the fact that although

Imagine this: it’s Monday, and a co-worker had a rough weekend with his family. He wants to talk about it.

By Andrew Chan / December 8, 2007

Even after the 5 stages of team formation, as project managers, we still find people not being able to work

It seems to me that too many High Tech companies have become so bureaucratic that the processes and meetings and

In business school I took a class where we worked in a team of four to do a strategy project

To me, a key ingredient for a productive meeting is connection. Otherwise, why meet at all? But how many meetings

In January I did a series of blogs on “Getting Smart about Trust.” Laying the Groundwork for Trust. I talked

By Cinda Voegtli / April 23, 2007

Last week I led a workshop aimed at project managers who are ‘beyond the basics’ and looking to take a

By ArLyne Diamond / March 10, 2007

Hi everyone, this is the end of my tour of duty as guest blogger. I wanted to end with some