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Job Title Inflation Continues
What title would you put on your business card if you could pick any one you liked? I’d pick “Project Janitor,” for myself because my job so often involves helping clients clean up problems and get...
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How to Choose a Consultant
There are times in the execution of a project or in managing an organization when the best solution is to hire a consultant – let me rephrase, there are MANY times when the best solution is to bring in...
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Staffing for Success – How to Interview
I am really getting lots of questions about staffing and it is seems to be really hot topic on the web these days. I wrote a white paper on the subject a few years ago (you are welcome to download a...
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Making a Project Manager’s Work-Life Miserable
You might have noticed in previous posts that I occasionally mention the entertaining and wise writings of Scott Berkun. His book, Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in...
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Personnel Issues in Project Management
As a project manager, there were times when I sincerely wondered if I would not be more successful if I just did not have to deal with people. People — my team, senior management, support staff and...
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Googled Knowledge vs Real Know how
Your new project has just been approved, and now you need to staff it. Whether you go to HR to get resumes of potential team members, or post available team positions on LinkedIn or Career Builder,...
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Maintaining Team Morale When Your Projects Get Tough
‘I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom.’-General George Patton Today I had a tough travel day – The Northeast US is snowed in by Winter...
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Top 3 Reasons Key Performers are Essential
Our team has been in staffing mode for the last 2 weeks (Or as our HR staff says “Talent Acquisition mode”). Every time I am involved in starting up a new large program I start thinking about the...
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What do the Olympics have in common with a Project?
If you are like me (and millions of others) you have been watching the SOCHI Winter Olympics. It is exhilarating to watch women and men, who have trained for years, put their skills to the test in...
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The Annual Performance Review – is it Time for a Change?
All managers (Project Managers, department heads, Executives) in most organizations have a responsibility to provide feedback to their staff members. Over the years I have found that many people view...
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