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HBR Guy Says Commitment Is Not Motivation
Management (and project management) is about getting things done. When I say management, I don’t mean the things managers do, I mean the dictionary definition. It is about pursuing a specific goal,...
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Team Building and Ensuring Goals are Met : Same Thing
What bothers me most about team building approaches I have witnessed and read about (or worse yet, had to participate in) is when they are acitivites separate from getting the team’s real work done....
View ArticleTeam Building and Ensuring Goals Are Met: Same Thing (Part 2 Microsoft Example)
Examples of building team and trust while simultaneously ensuring the goals are met are always exciting because they are not that common. But shortly after I published the last blog this Microsoft...
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Davos 2012: The Ultimate Stakeholder Analysis
I had the opportunity to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland at the end of January. I had decided I wasn’t going to blog about it, after all, I was there as a “spouse,” it was my wife...
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Are You Over-Committed?
The economy has been picking up in a variety of consumer sectors for awhile now. Even hiring (and indicators of more hiring) is ticking up. But as is always the case, actually getting new people in...
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Project Synch Points, Croatia, and the Art of Getting There Together
Projects, by definition, have a pre-defined endpoint. Getting a team to arrive all together at that end point – that desired destination – is a key goal of the project manager. One of the standard...
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Why You Don’t Need PDU’s to Keep Your Driver’s License
I began my career in large scale manufacturing and one of the long standing techniques for managing resources was training and certification programs. Most of the training was one on one and on the job...
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Future-Based Language
“When you say – here is a table – a table does not come out of your mouth.” from The Last Word on Power by Tracy Goss A small shift in the language we use to plan and monitor projects can make a big...
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The First Law of Project Performance
Some people say that performance is built on relationship. This is true. And I like to get even more specific and say that performance is built on mutual respect. When people get together to...
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Easing Into Agile
As CBPM was evolving in the late 1990′s, it was encouraging to see other methods emerging with similar principles to address similar issues in the project environment. Visionary software developers in...
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Is This Annoying? (Why Progress Meetings Get Such a Bad Rap)
A small shift in the structure of your regular project meetings is one of the simplest things you can do to improve project performance and your reputation as a meeting leader. The essence of this...
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Timm Esque Interviewed by Andreas Larsson: CBPM in a Development Environment
Ensemble Managing Partner, Timm Esque, was interviewed recently by Andreas Larsson, Associate Professor on the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden (pictured below). To oversimplify a...
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Coming Soon: A User’s Guide to Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0
Do you think about how best to motivate individuals on your project teams? We recommend that you don’t. Instead we recommend you think about what general conditions would help most professional...
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Not in My Estimation…
A colleague recently sent me PwC’s Third Global Survey on the Current State of Project Management. The survey collects opinions from mostly practicing PMs and program managers from around the world....
View ArticleWhat’s Commitment Got to Do With It?
Commitment has pretty much everything to do with it when we are talking about achieving the highest level of success. It doesn’t matter whether it is personal success, relationship success, team...
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You Promised We’d Do What by When?!
Have you ever promised to do something substantial for someone without first figuring out how you can possibly get it done? Most likely you have. People do this all the time. When we really care...
View ArticleOn time Delivery: Commitments vs. Commands
What difference does it make if you request when a team can complete a project rather than telling them when it has to be done? After all, the difference seems pretty semantic. We have been helping...
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What’s Commitment Got to Do With It?
Commitment has pretty much everything to do with it when we are talking about achieving the highest level of success. It doesn’t matter whether it is personal success, relationship success, team...
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You Promised We’d Do What by When?!
Have you ever promised to do something substantial for someone without first figuring out how you can possibly get it done? Most likely you have. People do this all the time. When we really care about...
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Trust on Teams: Where to Begin?
Few would argue with the statement “trust is important to building teams”. At the same time, there are a variety of definitions of trust and different theories for how to best produce it. It is...
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