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How do you measure the unmeasurable?

I have a friend that tells me everything is measurable… To a large extent, she might be right, but I think there are certain things that can’t be measured…like empathy, relationships, and personal skills. Which leads me to the real challenge that a lot of us face, when you can’t find an easy measure of […]

Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills…

I’ve had a few good conversations lately about project management and the way that project managers can make big leaps forward. One way that project managers can raise their awareness and become much better is to differentiate their jobs into the aspects that require hard skills and the ones that require soft skills. If you […]

Smart Firms Lead Softly

I’ve been playing with this idea of “leading softly” for several weeks now. And, it started as a simple idea about project managers leading from a place of communication and soft skills first. But as I have gone further with my thought process, I have begun to think about softly not just as the ability […]

How Can We Create Jobs?

Just a few minutes ago, I was reading this morning’s Washington Post and a column by Robert McCartney called ‘The $1 billion question: How can we create jobs?’: Mr. McCartney writes about one of the founders of the Carlyle Group, Bill Conway, and how he wants to give away half of his wealth before he […]