Don’t act like you know it all When you’re new to a role, it’s natural to cover up your own ignorance. You want to earn respect, and everyone is looking at you. So you may not speak up when a topic is discussed that you...

There is a central theme running through my Project Leadership Thoughts: it is impossible to look at a project as an isolated entity. It’s about people and interactions. And interactions happen throughout the entire social network. Every interaction...

What do Sisyphus, Attila the Hun, the Quakers, and early cartographers have in common with creating a project office? They all represent metaphors that guide modern managers to implement a project office for organizational change.  You may decide to...

Yelling “Self promotion, Baby” is a little over the top, isn’t it? I love rhetoric. I enjoy Big Stories. Without Too Much Detail. As Too Much Detail ruins a Good Big Story. Although I sometimes say things excited and full of passion (”you need...

Why should people want to work on your project? You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world. Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies...