Effective Risk Management That Isn’t Boring
I love this one. I never understood why management tools have to be boring. They must be effective, and without a good communication tool, it is often just a good intellectual exercise. I have often enhance business results by changing the way it is communicated. I...
Managing by walking around
It seems this old concept is not dead… And of course it is not dead. Management and leadership is not just a strategic job done in a bubble. It is a social activity. You have to be visible to your team. A leader needs to see and sense the reality out there,...
Every Leader Is an Artist
Too often, leadership is describe in a very boring and disconnected way in business and leadership books. It is described as if it is a logical process, like a software. Leadership would not exist without human being. I also think that the business world in MBA-type...
The Bell Rock Lighthouse
Looking at the past, we can often find project that are very impressive, and I am not even sure anyone would try to accomplish some of these projects. Here’s one. The Bell Rock Lighthouse, built in 1807 by Robert Stevenson. Bell Rock was the scene of many...
The Role of Executives in a Lessons Learned Session
I absolutely agree. Lessons learned and any review of processes for improvement is far too often oriented towards the working level. It is as if the executives have no impact at all on the result. If it would be the case, why do we have them? The best way for an...
AtTask YouTube Page
I didn’t know Attask has a YouTube Channel. I just subscribed to it. http://www.youtube.com/user/attask/featured AtTask is an excellent online project management software. http://www.attask.com
Podcast 378: Mind Meister with Michael Hollauf
L. Greg Voisen has on his website, Inside Personal Growth, a podcast on MindMeister. Please take a look (or listen!) I do like MindMeister and have an account. Michel Source: Inside Personal Growth Podcast 378: Mind Meister with Michael Hollauf I have recently been...
Mind Mapping / Brainstorming tool – Spiderscribe.net
Hello, I am currently exploring this tool: Spiderscribe.net. It seems nice. I will post a review in a few days. Anyone has used it? Please feel free to comment. Website: http://www.spiderscribe.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiderScribe?sk=wall Twitter:...
Deloitte Ponders Future Talent in the Human Cloud
I do agree that technology is changing the workplace a lot, and social network communication and cloud computing are here to stay. Moreover, they are not just minor changes, but transformational. For anyone not using these technologies, there is a huge risk of being...
Four Lessons the Mars Rover Can Teach Us About Project Management Teams
One thing that is always important, is to have a clear vision of what would be a success. This always helps navigate through obstacles, challenges, delays, etc. Otherwise, it is very easy in long and complex project to be thrown off track. Four Lessons the Mars...
To Be Number One, Get the Right Number Two
I always believe that success means that I can leave without having everything falling apart. Too often the success is too much dependent on one person. That is bad, because the organization should be larger than one person. It should survived the departure of a key...
Why great ideas get rejected
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ESI International – Project Management and IT Project Management Learning
Here is an interesting learning program on project management. It is linked to the George Washington University and the PMI certification. I have done 2 of their course and find them good. They also have a format/schedule that makes it easy to arrange it around a...
RMC Project Management
Here is an interesting training source on project management. I will need to explore it a bit more, but I am passing the information. RMC Project Management Founded in 1991 by Rita Mulcahy, RMC Project Management is the innovator in project management training and...
Program Management
I think it is always very important to be able to understand subjects from various levels and different dimensions. The macro and the micro. the long-term and the short-term, ouput and outcome, etc. In my experience, very few can be effective program manager. And...
Assistance Unwanted – 5 Management Style Signs Helping Is Futile
Published on 01 August 2012 by Mike Brown in Brainzooming A couple of years ago, I was facilitating an idea generation session with an internal client recently demoted into a marketing management job. We were providing strategic help to develop the marketing plan for...
Why “Everyone” Needs To Fill In Timesheets
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Agile is a different methodology that everyone should learn, because of its flexibility. We live today in a complex ever changing environment. Standard waterfall project management technique may not work well when things change...
7 Signs of a Bad Leader
And what questions to ask if you are interviewing. Published on May 20, 2012 by Bernardo Tirado, PMP in Digital Leaders Many of us remember our worst leaders and for some of us we still are working with them. Below are 7 signs to find out if you are reporting...
How Extremely Successful People Sell Their Ideas Internally
Unless you are CEO, or a member of the C-Suite at the very least, you generally can’t convince your organization to create a new structure, but you can persuade it to perhaps attack a given problem from an unusual angle. (“Hey, boss, can we think about this...GetResponse
