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Managing Up: How to Manage Your Boss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne at a presentation she gave at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Managing up is something people have been talking about for a long time, and it was brought to the attention of a lot of people back in 2005 with the now-classic HBR article on the topic.

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The Hidden Power of Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety in Project Success

The IIL Blog

The PMI Talent Triangle®, which validates credential holders, defines power skills as interacting with others via effective behaviors and tactics. This occurred when preparing for my PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification. This suggests that implicit in every emotion is a tendency to act. So, what is EI?

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Next Generation Project Management Software

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an edited version of a white paper I wrote with some colleagues for the PMI EMEA Summit in Barcelona. About the Authors: Elizabeth Harrin ( you know me ) is the author of several project management books, including Collaboration Tools for Project Managers (PMI, 2016).

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Illusions

Zen Project Management

I went to my first PMI conference in 1999. Philip Tatlock did research for his 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? Two out of three mutual funds underperform the overall market in any given year. However stock traders still believe in their approach. I thought of the example of project management. How Can We Know?

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Academy of Management Executive 2005. [4] They must be clear about priorities and engage with project leaders to ensure that these are understood. Executives must understand that project management is the key. 3] After Donald Hambrick and James Fredrickson, ‘Are You Sure You Have A Strategy?’, 4] Michael Porter, ‘What is Strategy?’

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New Trends in Online Learning

Leading Answers

The period from 2005 to 2010 brought YouTube, Twitter and iPhones. Project Management Examples Today, we can see instances of these new learning trends in products such as PMI's  Snippets  and the training elements of  StandardsPlus. Searching for content and consuming videos would never be the same again.

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Business Model Canvas Explanation for Strategic PM’s

The Strategic Project Manager

It was originally proposed in 2005 by Alexander Osterwalder, who has earlier worked on an ontology for Business Models. Rather than explaining the canvas, I will ‘take a wag’ at filling it – for the Project Management Institute (PMI) – noting that this is my perspective only for the example.

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