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...

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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...

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Playing the Game or Just Getting Played? In this episode, I welcome Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game or Just Getting Played? If you get sick of office politics, join the...

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Tough Boss or Bully? In this episode, I welcome workplace bullying expert Paul Pelletier. He’s a lawyer, a PMP, and author of Workplace Bullying: It’s Just Bad for Business: Prevention, Management, & Elimination Strategies for...

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All the World’s a Stage Could it be that everything we do is a performance? Every interaction, at work and at home? That’s the premise of Cathy Salit’s new book Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach...

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Negotiating Emotionally Charged Conflicts In this episode, I welcome Harvard’s Daniel Shapiro to talk about his new book Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. If you lead projects and teams,...

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How Culturally Intelligent Are You? In this episode I welcome Dr. Tom Verghese from Cultural Synergies to talk about the importance of raising our cultural intelligence (what he calls CQ). Check out his website for...

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