Each and every day Project Managers attempt to manage time within schedule constraints. Here’s a piece of advice, don’t try to do too much all at one time. Instead, set small goal oriented task. If you achieve accomplishing a few task at a time you can be certain of progress. How this helps me, at … Continue reading »
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Building Alliances on the Job – Black Enterprise
Building Alliances on the Job – Black Enterprise. Good article on how to advance your career and successfully build alliances. Valerie Rainford, Managing Director and Business Support Executive for JPMorgan Chase Home Lending, states, “A strong performer without the alliances will go unnoticed.” Great performance alone can’t win you the success most professionals desire. According … Continue reading »
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We’ll learn fear might not mean ‘stop’; personally, I’ve come to believe fear usually means ‘go.’ It always means listen closely. — Frances Moore Lappé I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. – Joe Carter
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. – Charles Baudelaire SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively … Continue reading »
Do People Really Want You to Be Honest? – Peter Bregman – Harvard Business Review
Do People Really Want You to Be Honest? – Peter Bregman – Harvard Business Review. My feelings are that it is always best to be honest but, organizational culture makes it difficult under certain circumstances. For example, in most organizations heavy emphasis is placed on being a team-player, in some situations when recommending decisions most will factor … Continue reading »
In Presentations, Learn to Say Less – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
In Presentations, Learn to Say Less – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review. I would have to agree, some of the worst conferences, presentations, and meetings that I have attended are the ones where the speaker or presenter weighs the audience down with insignificant information that does not pertain to the topic of discussion. My … Continue reading »
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce
7 Techniques for Estimating Cost
Estimating the cost of project related activities and task can seem cumbersome through-out the planning phases. Generally speaking, there are four main techniques that fit into PMI’s framework that a PM’s can use to plan for cost: analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point estimates. According to PMI’s A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, … Continue reading »
