Surviving in a Matrix: Simple Techniques for Effective Project Management in a Matrix Organization
You love projects. You love good project management. And you love the exhilaration of power teams and project success. BUT you are struck in a matrix? Not the matrix of the movie. But the matrix of a strong line organization where projects have all but…
A wide-angle lense for your project efforts
While some of my peers are still thriving for planning tools and methodologies to strengthen their grip on projects, others offer ten keys to a happier living and pursuing a great dream. It’s the summary of this month’s PMI Netherlands Chapter’s 3rd Summit on the thin…
A Happy, Happy Conference – PMI NL Summit 2014
I have just returned from a fabulous conference: the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 in beautiful Zeist, NL. It was an honor and great pleasure to open the conference with my own keynote on „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success„. In my presentation I explained why and…
3 Steps from Zombie Projects to WOW Projects
Wikepedia defines Zombies as fictional undead creatures regularly encountered in horror and fantasy themed works. They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses with a hunger for human flesh, and particularly for human brains in some depictions. A project is a project is a project?…
How much do you want to invest in your WOW project?
It was a long wait. Weeks, no, months. Then, finally she won the long sought opportunity to work on a mega project. A project that not only was long in duration but also involved lots of people and stakeholders. What a challenge! And what a…
Your Path to Happy Leadership and Project Success
Today, 18 September 2013, I will be giving a free webinar for the PMI Information Systems Community of Practice entitled “Leadership, Happiness and Project Success”. Follow this LINK to learn more about dial-in information 2 Ingredients for project success In this webinar I am exploring…
Leadership doesn’t need tools but principles
Developing my new workshop „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success“ I came across the question whether or not there can be tools for developing leadership. After all, the second part of the preliminary workshop agenda read „Create a strategy with the best tools possible“. It is…
The 3 Keys to Happiness & Success
And, what’s Leadership got to do with it? GUEST BLOG by Roxanne Kaufman Elliott, President of ProLaureate Ltd. Long ago in an ancient time, humankind was so abusive of the keys to happiness and success that the great elders and wise women of the time…
Help build workshop on „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success“
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a new interactive workshop called „Leadership, Happiness and Project Success“. The good news is that a first draft is done. 🙂 Please help build an interactive workshop for you and your projects The realistic…