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Dan Pink shares the big ideas in his books A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human on the surprising truth about how to move and motivate others. Dan Pink has written three books that have changed the way I think about motivation and influence. First, in A Whole New Mind, Dan shifts. Dan Pink shares the big ideas in his books A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human on the surprising truth about how to move and motivate others.
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You have heard that one of the top functions of the project manager is to communicate. The thing is, social media is increasingly becoming the method of choice for people to communicate today. So what is the project manager to make of this? Social media and Project Management? Have you thought about this? I’m so […]. The post 010 Making Sense of Social Media in Project Management with Tony Adams appeared first on Project Management for the Masses.
It’s not a stretch to say that few things in the modern business world are more universally despised than the memorandum. But why the contempt? It seems like a simple enough concept, right? Someone outlines a complicated new policy on paper, prints a million copies, distributes them through internal channels to employees- who, assuming they’ve received it, are expected to understand and internalize the material with little to no opportunity for questions.
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It’s not a stretch to say that few things in the modern business world are more universally despised than the memorandum. But why the contempt? It seems like a simple enough concept, right? Someone outlines a complicated new policy on paper, prints a million copies, distributes them through internal channels to employees- who, assuming they’ve received it, are expected to understand and internalize the material with little to no opportunity for questions.
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Today’s episode is a bit longer than usual, but it’s PACKED with great things, so I hope you don’t mind. If you’re listening to me during your commute this morning you might have to press pause when you arrive at work and finish the episode on your way back home, but I promise I would […]. The post 011 Stop Hiring Project Managers!
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It’s a new week, so welcome to a new episode of the Project Management for the Masses Podcast! I recently devoured a book called “Likeonomics” an Amazon #1 best seller in “Global Marketing,”Motivation and Self-Help,” and in 6 other categories. In this book, Rohit Bhargava convinced me through real stories and lots of research, that […].
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The time is set to 25/09/2013 @ 01:00GMT and posts will be tagged on social media with #pmFlashBlog. To know more read Shim Marom's post here. On September 25, 96 PM Bloggers from all over the world will participate in a flashblog. You can see the teaser here So, while you enjoy your weekend, I am traveling again tonight and the stress to pack over and over again has considerably reduced.
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