How many times have you heard the terms Managing your Boss or Managing Up? I am not sure the thoughts behind this concept will make your life easier, ...
Read MoreProject Leadership & Management
I was recently asked for my thoughts on General McChrystal’s book Team of Teams and to be honest I wasn’t expecting much new. General McChrystal i...
Read MoreYou’d rather sit with someone you don’t like than someone you don’t know – 3 lessons from ‘Team of Teams’
I was speaking to a group of Project Managers recently. Prior to speaking to any group I interview a cross-section of attendees to see what they want ...
Read More5 Steps To Leading When You Have 100% of the Responsibility But No Authority
So many objectives – so much failure That’s the refrain of leaders everywhere. The business objectives they need to meet in order to be su...
Read MoreWhy do objectives go bad? 10 Solutions You can Make To Stop Good Objectives From Going Bad
“Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.” – Robert Half Most agree that delegation is critical to management ...
Read MoreThe #1 Secret & 4 tips You Need To Know To Delegate
According to the Greek myth, Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain, only to have the rock roll back down to the bott...
Read MoreSisyphus & Project Management: 5 Things You Can Do To Avoid Eternal Futile Labour
A recent survey of my readers reported that many of you work for people who fall somewhere along the spectrum of being Horrible Bosses. On one end the...
Read More4 Things A Punk Rock Band – The Clash – Taught Me About Dealing With A Horrible Boss
There are ox-cartloads of theories that explain how to develop, communicate, and make decisions based on priorities. But in a recent survey readers of...
Read More3 Tips You Can Do Today To Manage Competing Priorities
I have been coaching a CEO whose company is developing a poor record of delivering products and projects to their customer’s satisfaction. Click her...
Read More80% Of Projects Fail Because Of ‘People’ Issues … Here Are 6 Things You Can Do To Reduce That Risk
If you have been following my blogs, you have seen that leadership is the recurring theme. But Leadership without results is: at best frittering away ...
Read More