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The Ties That Bind
I attended a funeral this weekend. It was for my father’s cousin at whose house I spent so much of my childhood. We weren’t particularly close–I haven’t seen her in years. However, I understand towards...
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The Hiring Manager Black Hole
So I’ve been looking rather unsuccessfully for work lately and one of the things that’s been really gnawing at me is the human resource black hole. We all know how it is…you contact an employer about a...
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High Adventure and Project Leadership
(A guest post by Rick Valerga, author of The Cure for the Common Project) About a week ago, project management author Rick Valerga approached me through the blog to chat about social media. We hit it...
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Wearing the Shoes of Uncertainty
We all have things we’re known for. In my case, you give me a team that’s completely demoralized and dysfunctional, and I’ll turn it around and get it working effectively again. To that point, someone...
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Can PM Training Success Be Measured?
So, I was just over on Elizabeth Harrin’s blog, rabidly trying to catch up on her posts (she’s one of my favourites) after crunch week at university. While I was there, I caught her piece, Is Project...
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Negotiation is Never About You! Part 1
Okay, so yesterday I got a bit snarky and went on a terrible rant about poor Prince Humphrey and the abysmal negotiation tactics that got him into trouble. Today I wanted to calm things down and talk...
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Hostage Negotiation and Project Management
So what does a project manager have in common with a terrorist negotiator? Well, if they’re both doing their jobs right, they’re driving specific behaviours from the people with whom they’re working....
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Inner Work Life and Project Teams
So I want to introduce you today to a groovy new book by Harvard Professor Teresa Amabile and her equally accomplished husband, Steven Kramer. It’s called The Progress Principle, and I think it...
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Why Every PM Should Worry About Risk Identification – And You Should Too!
In 2007 I had a shattering – I mean shattering – nervous breakdown. Now, there were lots of contributing factors – I had many personal issues to deal with in the previous couple of years including...
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