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Equip Yourself To Reach Your Goals: The Ant and The Elephant

13 Apr 201513 Apr 2015
Imagine someone watching the 1988 Olympic Opening Parade and getting the crazy idea that they’d like to be one of the athletes marching in the next Olympic parade. Imagine that they have…
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Watch How You Talk To Yourself

23 Mar 201523 Mar 2015
We can be our own worst enemy at times. Whether we say the words out loud or not, we are always talking to ourselves. Just as guard rails can prevent…
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Introducing Change: Three Ways to Engage Your Stakeholders

2 Mar 20152 Mar 2015
"I don't need to tell you that now, more than ever, we need sideways thinkers like you.  We need more dents in the status quo, more disruptions of business-as-usual and…
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Experimenting with Personal Kanban

23 Feb 2015
After reading Personal Kanban, I wanted to try running with some of the authors' ideas in the real world. And why not? All I needed was a Kanban board and a…
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Book Review: Personal Kanban

25 Jan 2015
"Like Traffic, work does not fit.  Work flows." - Personal Kanban Do you ever look up at the end of the day and wonder 1) Where the day went? 2)…
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Book Review: Teamwork is an Individual Skill

15 Dec 20144 Aug 2017
Teamwork Is an Individual Skill. The book title itself seems to turn our usual assumptions about teamwork upside down. And true to its title, the book tries to give its…
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True communication is the response you get

7 Dec 2014
"True communication is the response you get.  This phrase might need some explanation in order to make complete sense.  It is based on the idea that no communication attempt initiated…
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Plan Some of Your Work, Work that Plan

22 Nov 201422 Nov 2014
The adaptive, flexible approach....views projects as dynamic, unstable, and hard-to-predict processes.  It assumes that changes will take place during project execution - changes in the environment, the business, the markets,…
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Managing Your Emotions: In the Middle of a Tough Conflict

29 Oct 201429 Oct 2014
To beat a tough conflict, you need to quickly shift to a much bigger and higher state of mind than the conflict itself. The secret is to immediately think of…
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Dealing with Uncertainty

7 Oct 2014
Project management used to be about driving out uncertainty.  You nailed down all the deliverables at the outset and fine-tuned your specs so implementation could be as routine as possible.…

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