Tag: Project Management
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Your CEO “Steps In” to Help a Troubled Project: Good Practice or Not?
This year I’ve watched with some interest the saga of Tesla, which is run by Elon Musk. He’s a genius with technology but seemingly less so with human relationships. Musk is known for making bold claims about technology and innovation, but Tesla has faced some struggles to meet production deadlines and more. This is from…
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HR Project Management: The Ultimate Guide
HR Project Management Skills are Powerful Tools–Do You Have Them? When you look at a list of key HR competencies, one thing that often is lacking is a good set of project management skills. While it’s easy to try and segment the human resources profession away from the project manager role, I see it as…
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Monkey Management-Don’t Take the Monkey
Don’t. Take. The. Monkey. Ever had someone stop by your desk, tell you about a problem, and walk away, leaving the mess in your hands? They just gave you a monkey. And what’s worse is that you let them do it. If you’re not familiar, there’s a common phrase this relates to, which is “monkey…
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How to Take Action and Get Results
How to Take Action and Develop an Action Oriented Culture We recently had a new employee start on our executive team, and her fresh take on things is incredibly valuable for us in our quest for continuous improvement. One piece of our action-oriented culture that I have taken for granted was especially interesting for her.…
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Management blog reviews
Recently John Hunter reached out to me to participate in the 2010 Year in Review Carnival. Being one of those people who says “yes” to everything, I jumped in and chose three different blogs to review. All three of them are new to me, but there is some great content! Let’s get rolling. I’ll link…
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Breaking bottlenecks
When I was a senior in college, I took a little college class by the name of project management (taught by the guy who owned a weekend kettle corn stand that I heard about in every single class). One of the requirements of the class was reading a book called The Goal. I saw the…
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Video: Project Management-Responsibility and Control
(Subscribers may have to click here to view this video) Here’s the transcript of the video above if you can’t check it out in all its glory. :-) Abdicating responsibility while maintaining control