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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 […]

Service of the project

One of the big challenges that any team faces is being able to effectively communicate with one another… There are a few reasons: One, an unwillingness to let down your guard long enough to admit you don’t know something or that you don’t have all the answers. Two, the need to maintain a hierarchy…either real […]

Planning Is Part Of Success

I hate these articles that tell you that you have to have every idea planned out to its completion before you start a project, but by the same token, I hate the articles that tell you to just wing it. I have a project management background, so I fall firmly into the planning is a […]

Quality, Time, and Cost are always linked

Quality=Time+Cost You can change the variables in this equation to fit your specific project, but if you aren’t investing a lot of time in something…you are going to need to spend a whole lot of money to get something good. The same way that if you are not spending a lot of money on something, […]

A Challenge To Project Based Organizations…

There are a lot of challenges that all companies are going to have to face in the years ahead. But there is a specific challenge that project based organizations are going to need to overcome…and that is to make sure that the role of the project manager doesn’t get watered down by too many project […]

21 Ways To Make Your Next Project More Successful

Yesterday I announced the title of my new ebook on Twitter. Today I am taking to my blog to give you the table of contents, or at least the working draft… The book is called 21 Ways To Make Your Next Project More Successful and it is going to be out in July. The gist is […]

You Don’t Have Processes In Place? Wait! What?

Over the years, I am proud to admit, I have been pretty successful in helping a few businesses dramatically increase their growth. This has either been after slumps or at the beginning. There, I did it, I tooted my own horn… Anyway, this doesn’t have nearly as much to do with me as it […]