Seeking Out the Noble Cause
My mother-in-law got her kitchen remodeled, and let her husband and the contractor pick out her stove. When it arrived, …
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Listening
How to manage a project
The essentials of project management in under 500 words What’s a project? A project is any endeavor that takes time …
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Communicating with More Experienced Team Members
(This article is part of a series originally published in Japan by ALC Press English Journal, and is written in …
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What generates energy for your team?
How do you evaluate how well a team is functioning? A key indicator is energy. Energy is a quality of …
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How many threads can you hold?
This article is about attention and focus, in your own life and the life of the teams you lead. Attention …
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A Tale of Three Cities – London, Toronto, and Redwood Shores
It had all the earmarks of a disaster, a real career-sinker of a project. And here was my old friend …
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Leading One-on-One
If you are going to lead hordes of peeps someday you’d better start by being able to lead a single …
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Everything I Know about Management I Learned as an Orchestra Conductor
There’s been an oft-repeated observation that there’s a high incidence of classically trained musicians in the software industry. I’ve seen …
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“Do you have a few minutes to talk?”
Imagine this: it’s Monday, and a co-worker had a rough weekend with his family. He wants to talk about it. …
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Sunday’s Pithy Blog – Better Communications Through Ah Counting
We all know that project management is primarily a people business. As such, communicating with humans is the most important skill …
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Drum this Into Your PM Head!
Having been told my whole life that sometimes I can be a bit too intense, it was enormously liberating to …
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