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Set your projects up…

Many projects fail….that’s just the way that projects work. As a leader in your organization, you can help your chances of success by focusing on knowing what you want to get out of any project… That means setting some clearly defined goals and objectives.

Correct objectives…

As we move towards organizations that are built on their ability to deliver projects, we are faced with the challenge of measuring these projects with a set of objectives that is relevant to what the intended outcome is… For you, the practicing manager or leader, you need to take a few extra moments to understand […]

Plans and Goals

A lot of us are still reflecting on our plans and goals for the New Year… And, it is important that you find a point of reference for yourself. Chris Brogan uses his 3 words to focus on the areas he wants to increase his productivity on in a year. I don’t focus on 3 words, […]

Choose Your Destination

When I am dealing with clients, the first thing I always talk about is “setting a destination” and usually that will lead me to talking about actually having a plan… But the key is to actually have a general idea of where you want to go at the start…

Mentors

We all have influences and people we have been inspired by… I could write a long list of things about the famous people that have inspired me, but that would be redundant…a lot of us do that everyday. Instead, today I am going to think about ways to acknowledge the people that have been there, […]

Process Goals, Again!

We are quickly moving up on football season now and so I think it is a good time to remind you that one important aspect of goal setting is that you should be focused on your process of improvement. If you have been in here a long time, you know I am an Alabama Crimson […]

Competitive Ratings For Higher Education

Over the long weekend I read an article in the NY Times about colleges being afraid of higher education rankings by the federal government. If I were in the education business at the college level, I would be too. But I am not here to bash colleges or the education system for that matter…it isn’t […]