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Simple Isn’t Always Easy

I’m reminded today that the simple things aren’t always easy. Like if you are organizing a project, its simple to know that you need to take into account your team members strengths and weaknesses, but not always easy to get there.

3 Lessons On How Not To Be A Good Project Manager From Last Night’s “All Star Celebrity Apprentice”

Well, well, well…if you have been following this season’s edition of “The Celebrity Apprentice” you know that the gloves have come off early and often. You also know that we have seen some examples of good project management and bad. Despite one team having to win, last night’s episode was truly a case study in […]

3 Reasons Why The New Pope Needs To Be A Good Project Manager

I’ve got my TV turned to NBC right now, waiting to see who the new Pope is…probably like a lot of people all over the world. (Full disclosure: I’m not Catholic, but I do find the ceremony pretty fascinating.) While we don’t know who the new Pope is going to be, we do know that […]

Who Are Your Stakeholders, Really?

I’ve dealt with a lot of diverse groups over the years as a project manager or just a leader within an organization. One thing that stuck out to me is how difficult it can be to identify all of your stakeholders. So I thought I would take a moment today to give you a […]

Should Commenters Have To “Own” Their Comments?

I was watching the Today show this morning and “The Professionals” segment was talking about the Washington Post ombudsmen Peter Pexton thought that commenters on blogs and news sites should have to “own” their comments. For a long time I didn’t pay any attention to the comments on blogs or sites. It just wasn’t my […]

5 Lessons From Last Night’s ‘All-Star Celebrity Apprentice’

I’ve been a fan of the Donald and his TV show The Celebrity Apprentice for a long time now. Which doesn’t mean that I always think he makes the right decision or that you really learn a ton about business, but sometimes you do learn a lot about business and last night was one of those episodes. […]

3 Steps To Turning Around Any Organization

I’ve been thinking about how to restructure and save organizations this morning and one of the clients I am working with is facing a reorganization. After going over the mission and thinking through the problems, we came up with a pretty easy solution that the board and managers could hang their hats on and […]