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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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Do Simple Projects Need Less Planning?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: So, you’ve been assigned a “simple” project. In fact, it’s so simple there’s really no need for a formal project plan, a charter or any formal methodology for that matter. You feel good. Day 2: the business…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Sleeping and Learning – Using
Sleep Patterns to Process
Information Better

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Tony Schwartz discusses many little known facts about sleep and learning, and the effect of too little sleep. In this post, I will discuss the duration of the sleep…
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Different Train of Thought

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Have you ever had a humorous misunderstanding arise because two people were approaching a conversation from different angles and were not understanding each other correctly? Let me give you a recent humorous example…