Business Value… Project Management Coaching Workbook: Book Review 27 May 201428 May 2014 Self-improvement doesn't happen by chance or by accident. However, if you don't have any place to start from and nothing to set a goal against, the odds are that your desire for…
Agile… PMXPO 2014: Worth Another Look 12 May 2014 For PMs with little free time and no money for conferences, online conferences on Project Management have started to spring up. PMXPO is one of the conferences taking advantage of the online…
books… Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Book Review 28 Apr 2014 “...You’re on the right path when you make decisions and take actions that are true to your values, diversity, passions and core goal - it’s the inside path of your…
conflict… Can our fears make us better Project Managers? 16 Apr 201416 Apr 2014 Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - Measure for Measure My least favorite thing on the planet are horror movies.…
Business Value… The Whys of Stakeholders 26 Mar 201426 Mar 2014 “As far as I can tell there are two inviolable truths about people and projects: - There’s a reason behind everything that everyone does on, to, for with, or against…
career… Back to the Essentials 14 Mar 2014 Last week when I read The No. 1 Time Management Mistake Capable People Make I was excited for half a day. Greg McKeown suggests that instead of multi-tasking madly, we…
Emotional Intelligence… Project Managers: Your Health trumps Project Health 2 Mar 2014 Last week I realized something important. I take better care of my car than I do of my body. I was sitting in the dealership, answering questions about the state…
Emotional Intelligence… Catching the Wind: Or why write meeting minutes? 20 Jan 2014 Oaths are but words and words are but wind - Samuel Butler There are moments during your day when could swear that you’ve already had this conversation before…. facilitated the…
Branding… Shisso: Where are we going in 2014? 5 Jan 2014 On Feb 12, 2009, I started my blog with a post titled: “Under Construction”. This is what I wrote: To my under construction blog. My goal is to write about…
Business Acumen… Avoid Email Recall: Or Five Suggestions to Cope with Email as a PM 12 Sep 2013 In spite of Microsoft's best efforts, I've never seen Outlook successfully recall a message. Once out there - you lose control of the message and how it's read. To avoid…
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