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Doing Our Best Project Work….With Less

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the great symphony of life, everyone plays an important role, from the conductor to each instrument. Such it is with project management. If we have a team member that doesn’t pull their weight on the project,…
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Manage Your Management, Manage Your Team

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: What Managers Need to Know About Managing Projects Having been both a project manager and a manager of project managers, I’ve developed a clear impression of what a project produces, what it costs, and…
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Addressing Senior Management Fears

by Vicki Wrona, PMP: As project managers, we are often put into the position of middle managers. First, we have to manage those working on the project effectively, and often we spend much of our time in the day-to-day details of managing…
Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?
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Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: How many times have we been told that we need to “manage up”?  When someone says that, we all know what they mean.  Or do we?  What do we really need to do to manage up? It’s been said that managing…
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Hone Your Communication to Manage Up and Down

By Rob Zell: Cue narrator and eerie music: You are about to enter a dimension that is very real and demands performance; a dimension in which you are an engaged employee, looking to get ahead and improve your career. You have a boss…
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Stop, Look and Succeed
with Your Project

by Eileen McMonagle When a project feels like it is getting out of control, don’t try to move faster with it.  Now is the time to stop.  Even though it may feel like you should be doing the opposite, stop and really look at where…