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People have the power…

When I write my monthly piece for the Project Management Institute, I’m often surprised by which pieces have the most resonance with people. In the past few months, I’ve had exceptionally high engagement, feedback, and newsletter signups…and I think I can point that back to the idea that they have been especially human-oriented. I’ve […]

Flat Organizations

As we move towards more projects as the driver of business innovation, it is important that we stop viewing everything as such a silo. Silos are out…teams are in. As a leader of a team, and that’s what project managers are now, leaders…you need to remove the silo mentality by creating a flatter structure in […]

Changing Leadership

Leadership is changing… It is no longer enough to have a title. To have a position of authority. Now it is important to be a leader that serves the team as well as sets the vision. Leadership is becoming a communication job, like most other important jobs…your ability to communicate can define your success or […]

You Don’t Need To Fear Your Performance Review

I recently read an article about the case against performance reviews. And I think the critique is pretty accurate. Yet, as employees or managers, you should be yearning for performance reviews…but here is the caveat, you should be looking for performance reviews that help you know where performance is in accordance with the goals of the […]

Change As A Process…

A lot of the things you find yourself reading about change management comes at the issue from the negative, like change is a bad and terrible thing that has to be run for and managed with fear. But the real strength in change is the fact that it is naturally going to occur and that […]