Design the future you want with Human Business
Design the future YOU want. Do not remain an object or resource of change. Become a change agent with Human Business. How? This is the question we, Marc Buckley, and I talked about in his podcast Inside Ideas. Marc is a UN Sustainable Development Goals…
The Art and Magic of Making Joy the Driver of Your Business
Inside a Human Business. An interview with Richard Sheridan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Menlo Innovations Menlo Innovations is not yet another software development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is unique in many aspects. Face this, every year more than 3.000 people visit this firm to watch…
Business 7.0 – An enlightening, inspirational, motivational book for tomorrow’s leaders
There are countless books on leadership and change management. Most of them have in common that they propose a specific way how to achieve performance and accomplish change. Alas, our world around us, business and we, ourselves, have changed. The traditional linear mechanical model of…
Top tips for project mangers who want to step up and become great leaders
Susanne Madsen, author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook: 6 steps to unleashing your potential, has recently asked me what my top tips are for project mangers who want to step up and become authentic and impactful leaders who add real value, build great teams and…
Guest Blog by Neal Whitten: Some No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success
Today I want to share some of Q&As from Neal Whitten’s book Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk: More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success—Over 700 Q&As! which I highly recommend to anyone seriously interested in project management and leadership. Q. As a leader, is an ego…
Book Review: A Guide to Project Recovery
Projects become more prevalent. Not surprisingly the art of project management becomes more popular. Unfortunately this does not imply that the more projects there are the more successful they are. As a matter of fact a significant percentage of projects fail or do not yield…
Getting started with project leadership
[reprint from Cornelius Fichtner’s blog: http://tinyurl.com/4xj4ddy.] In May of 2011 The Project Management Podcast launched its Project Leadership Series at www.pm-podcast.com. The series started with interviews with Thomas Juli, author of Leadership Principles for Project Success, and Rick Valerga, author of The Cure for the…
5 Leadership Skills for Project Managers
I have written many posts on the right leadership principles for project success. I strongly believe that effective project management needs to have a solid foundation in leadership. Without leadership chances are that projects become „just another project“ – far from the sought after „Wow“-project….
New book reviews of „Leadership Principles for Project Success“ available
I am happy to post 2 new reviews of my book „Leadership Principles for Project Success„. See for yourself what others think about the book: Patrick Durkan: http://www.pmworldtoday.net/book_reviews/2010/dec/Leadership_Principles_for_Project_Success.html Elizabeth Hurrin: http://www.arraspeople.co.uk/camel-blog/projectmanagement/book-review-leadership-principles-for-project-success/ If you are interested in reviewing the book and write an official book review,…
The Death of Traditional Management
Steve Denning, author of “The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management” (Jossey-Bass, 2010) has published a great article on Forbes.com entitled “Wal-Mart And The Futility Of Traditional Management”. In this article he points out the declining business numbers of Wal-Mart and compares them to thriving and…