
How Is Your Culture Affecting Your Success?
By Rob Zell:
It’s soccer season again and I’m reminded how culture and fit impact performance. Your organization depends on both elements to be successful. If you ignore the impact of culture and fit, you are doomed to fail. In this post,…

Failure Is Not an Option… Well, Sometimes
By Craig Covello, PMP
I think it’s fair to say that most project participants are interested in doing a good job. Money is certainly a motivational factor, but many of us also value the concepts of personal integrity, commitment and reputation.…

Learning From A Fly On The Wall
By Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP:
When I learned of an opportunity to sit in on a major NASA project review as a “fly on the wall,” I jumped at it. This seemed like a great way to learn about the new Kepler project. Kepler is a special purpose…

Overcoming Organizational Obstacles to
Unlock the Value of Project Management
Part 2: Mowing Down Turf Protection
by Vicki Wrona, PMP
In the previous post, Putting Out Fires and Reducing the Drama, we examined the first of five cultural barriers. We’ll now explore the second obstacle faced by project managers and project team members: turf protection.
Within…
Unlock the Value of Project Management
Part 2: Mowing Down Turf Protection

Types of Students – Not All Are Learners
By Vicki Wrona, PMP:
I have trained thousands of professionals over the past 11 years and have observed a direct correlation between the different types of students and their success rate. My personal observation and the help of some past…

Project Management:
The Ultimate Transferable Skill?
by Kathy Martucci, PMP:
Face it, one of the reasons you like being a project manager is that, theoretically, you could be in the healthcare sector one week and in the finance sector the next. But is it really that easy to wrap up your…
The Ultimate Transferable Skill?