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Generational Leadership: A New Dimension of Diversity

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: The generational makeup of the workforce has changed significantly in the last 10 years. Today, more generations work together in single workplaces and they have greater disparities than ever before. The workforce…
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You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike: Crossing
Generational Lines in Training and Development

By Rob Zell: In too many classrooms, in too many organizations, training is failing. It is failing to focus on changing behavior and failing to engage workers in the joy of learning. Not just learning for the sake of knowledge; do that on…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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How Triage Techniques Might Have Helped Toyota, Part 1

By Bruce Beer, PMP: This is the first of two posts. How can a company that built its reputation on quality have been in the state where they seemed to be pilloried from all directions due to quality failures? Toyota was in trouble,…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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E-Mail Pet Peeves

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: We all have pet peeves — those things that others (or possibly you) do that drive you crazy. I’ll start with some of mine with regard to emails. I am not disclosing this to rant, but instead in an attempt for all…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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Point-Counterpoint: The Technical
vs the Non-Technical
Project Manager

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: In this world of complex information technology projects, is a non-technical project manager as effective or as successful as a technical project manager? Is the project manager required to have a technical background…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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What Do You Do When You Don’t Get a Response?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Have you ever had someone who just wouldn’t respond to your messages, no matter how much you tried to reach them? There are a myriad of reasons why this occurs. Regardless of that, how do you interpret the silence?…