Do you ever have to rely on someone to finish a task who doesn't have the same sense of urgency as you? Whether it’s someone in a different part of the business or outside the walls of our organization, project managers and other leaders regularly depend on other people. Since we often don’t have positional... Continue Reading →
Projects Without Planning
“Can you manage a project without planning?” I ask this question to participants in our project management workshops around the world. Regardless of where I’m teaching, participants typically respond as follows: Multiple people will say, “No!” Then someone will say, “Well….” Then another person will admit, “We do it all the time!” I suppose it... Continue Reading →
The Most Important Lesson You Learned Last Year
What did you learn last year? It’s a simple enough question, and it would be easy to answer it with, “Well, I learned a lot!” But I’d like you to get more specific. What’s something specific you learned in the last 12 months that either you didn’t know before or you had to re-learn? What... Continue Reading →
