2013 | Coaching Leaders

Why Politicians Shouldn’t Manage Projects – Affordable Care Act Lessons Learned

Leave a Comment / Project Management / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders… I cringe every time I hear of a government run IT project gone bad. I watch in amazement as project after project, especially in the IT arena, goes down the tubes when run by the government. I’m not talking about IT Infrastructure, things like servers or networks but about true software development. Over […]

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How To Reenter the Workforce – Five Tips to success

Leave a Comment / Personal Growth / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders! Are you looking for work, or thinking about reentering the workforce after spending some time away from the daily grind? Perhaps you took some time off to pursue a business venture, raise your kids at home or have to find work due to a change in your financial situation. Whatever the case, reentering

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Why People Won’t Listen To You… and what you can do about it

1 Comment / Personal Growth / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders! Do you find yourself in the frustrating position where people just won’t listen to you, even though you think you have good ideas that will help your company, organization, or the individual? If you do, don’t lose heart! There are definitely some things you can do to change this.

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Top 5 Mistakes Project Managers Make… and how to avoid them

Leave a Comment / Personal Growth, Project Management / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders! While mentoring Project Managers over the years, I’ve noticed both the good and the bad. What are the top 5 mistakes Project Managers make? Well, we’re all different, but here are five sure ways to get shown the door both as a consultant and as an employee.

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Executive Corner – 5 Steps To Building an Ethical Organization that Thrives

Leave a Comment / Leadership / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders! I’ve been contemplating a situation that many of us have seen before. An organization spends a lot of money and time on building a culture of trust, openness and transparency. Yet, the changes don’t take and the company culture doesn’t change as expected. What gives?

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Out of Control Team Member – What would you do?

2 Comments / Project Management / John Ikeda

Greetings Leaders! I was teaching class last night and we had a very lively discussion about Resource Management. Here was the scenario.. A Project Manager and a Line Manager meet to discuss getting a team resource for the project. The Project Manager doesn’t like the team member that the Line Manager is going to give

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