What Makes A Hit Song? Or Idea? Why does one artist pull down a Grammy and another go without notice? Why do some products skyrocket in popularity when better ones never make it to production? Derek...
Constraints are…. Good? Timeframes. Budgets. Staffing. Project managers constantly face confounding constraints on their journey to deliver a project. Constraints limit our options. They seem to make it more difficult to deliver. And they might...
Work…Without Stress? There are many satisfying aspects of jobs that require us to lead teams and deliver projects. Yet they are careers that often include elevated amounts of stress. Or is it pressure? Our guests...
What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode I talk about a conversation I overheard in an...
Our View of Authority How you and I think about authority matters. It impacts how we go about our roles as leaders. And understanding the impact we have on others is critical....
What I Learned This Week We continue our experiment of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode I talk about influencing by asking instead of telling....
What I Learned This Week This episode kicks off our experiment of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode I talk about what I learned prepping...
What Did You Learn Last Year? What’s something specific you’ve learned in the last 12 months that you either didn’t know before then or you had to re-learn it? That’s a question I asked some...
Gotta Love Millennials When the topic of millennials comes up in my workshops, it’s sure to evoke strong opinions, from older leaders who complain millennials are entitled, to the millennials who resent being stereotyped. In...
Project Managers Influencing Without Authority Increasingly, project managers need to influence, but do so without authority. Often, without much, if any positional power, we need to get a sponsor or team member or other stakeholders...