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The Genius of Teamwork |
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True teamwork is the rarest, most exhilarating, and most productive human activity possible. Every business wants to harness this incredible energy, but achieving such a level of motivation and esprit is not always easy. | | No comments for this item |
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Try Managing Up |
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Along with managing your subordinates, for real success you also have to manage your boss. In other words, you have to "manage up." According to Thomas Zuber and Erika James, "managing up is the process of consciously working with your boss to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss and your organization. This is not political maneuvering or "kissing up." Rather, it is a deliberate effort to bring understanding and cooperation to a relationship between individuals who often have different perspectives." | | No comments for this item |
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How to Make Work Fun |
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Do you have fun at work? Is the culture of your company encourage employees having fun? Is encouraging fun at work smart business? At a department meeting we asked employees to fill out a survey that described the level of fun they were having at work. They reacted to our survey with frowns and puzzled looks. The survey results also showed that that many of my co-workers did not consider work as being fun. These results were disturbing to me and I started thinking about the relationship between work and fun. | | This item includes 2 comments |
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Seven Skills for Effective Leadership |
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Based on the book Leadership for Everyone (McGraw-Hill 2005)
by Dr. Peter J. Dean, President, Leaders By Design The L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Method contains the essential skills necessary for any effective leader to practice. While these skills are practiced to some degree individually, it is their integration and systematic use that will result in optimum leadership ability. | | No comments for this item |
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Project Management and Situational Leadership |
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Leadership is defined as the ability to influence groups of people in order to make them work and achieve prescribed goals ("The Project Management Question and Answer Book" by Michael and Marina).
Leadership, as a type of managerial interrelationship between the leader and the followers and is based on the combination of authority types most efficient for the current situation. | | No comments for this item |
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Increasing Project Alignment |
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Getting the key leaders of a project aligned is a critical enabler for successSuppose you are a project manager and you discover that your counterpart in your client organization prefers working alone, and basically dislikes working in groups and participating in meetings. What could you do about it?
How would you know this in the first place? | | No comments for this item |
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Collaborative Project Management, A New Web Architecture |
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The project management paradigm has been shifting in recent years away from a top down view of how projects are managed toward a more collaborative model. And, in many cases, task interdependence and member distribution across time, space, and technology make high degrees of collaboration necessary to accomplish project work. | | This item includes 1 comment |
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Work Planning and Review |
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One of the most important items in your repertoire as a Project Manager is your ability to stay on top of things, your ability to plan and to implement those plans on time and within budget. | | No comments for this item |
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Leadership |
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A Pre-requisite for Success,,The aim of this article is to establish if leadership capabilities of a project manager in any way aids in the successful delivery of a project. | | This item includes 1 comment |
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The Blame Game |
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In any engineering organization, things go wrong.
Product is shipped which doesn't meet customer expectations. Defects, perhaps severe ones, are missed in testing and discovered in the field. Documentation and manuals contains mistakes.
The list goes on and on. | | No comments for this item |
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