Category: Leadership
Leadership Interview with Dr. Te Wu
Project Leadership Interview with Prof. Te Wu By Kobi Zalait (Graduate MBA Student) on June 17, 2017 1. What is your professional mission? Dr. Wu’s professional mission and focus is on strategy execution – help...
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence & The Project Manager
I came across an article from TechRepublic titled 5 Project Management Trends to Watch in 2018, and at No. 5 was “Recruiting for emotional intelligence”. Perhaps, but EI (emotional intelligence) has always been a core...
Read MoreThe Pitfalls of Micromanaging within Project Management and How To Fix It!
Chhavi Firani for BBN Times wrote “The Building Blocks of Successful Project Management” and listed as one of those building blocks to avoid micromanaging which is, “when you are trying to manage an excel sheet rather...
Read MoreOrganizational Project Management Training in a Nutshell
David Davis for ATD wrote a piece called “Let me let you in on a secret to sustaining learning!”. Where he compared and contrasted approaches to organizational learning programs and explained why one was effective. He...
Read MoreLeadership and Decision Making in the Era of Man-Made Risk
Leadership and decision making are at every level of the organization. We project professionals often find ourselves in a tough spot when we have to make decisions and rely on our leadership skills to get us to the finish...
Read MoreThe Importance of Mentoring One on One for the Project Manager
The role of a mentor is to encourage the personal and professional development of a mentee through the sharing of knowledge, expertise and experience. The challenge for the mentor is to nurture or blossom the qualities required...
Read MoreLoneliness and the Project Manager
Of all project manager skills, the ability to make important business decisions is perhaps the most valuable. However the professional life of a project manager can include significant periods of isolation wherein they are...
Read MoreHow To Pivot and Recover From Poor Communications in Project Management
Have you ever thought about the true cost of ineffective communication? I am going to examine two recent studies and draw some vital observations. In the most recent Pulse of the Profession, PMI found $99 million for every $1...
Read MoreServant Leadership Empowers the Team
Servant Leadership Empowers the Team A servant leader seeks first to serve those who they are leading. What servant leadership means to me, is a simple question to my team members. How can I help you be successful, so we may be...
Read MoreEmerging Role of Chief Project Officer
Summary: Among project management professionals, the idea of the CPO has been around for well over 20 years, and yet there are very few of them. With organizations intensifying their project efforts, isn’t it time to re-affirm...
Read MoreThe Grateful Agile Leader
We know that servant leadership is an excellent match for Agile methods. For example, in Scrum, the Scrum Master is a servant leader of the Scrum Team. What other leadership styles have a home in the Agile approach? Grateful...
Read MoreStop Blaming Others (Te’s Musing)
The world is facing a tragedy on a scale that most of us have never seen before. Even through our history, there are few parallels. Covid19 affected millions of people directly through infections and deaths. By some estimates,...
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