Greetings Leaders! I’ve been consulting in State and Local Government for 15 years and have seen quite a few things during my career. There have been successful projects for sure, but sadly, there have been many failures too. As I look back on my experiences, there are patterns that stand out between the good and […]
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Greetings Leaders! I spoke at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting this morning… and was shocked by some of the comments I got. My topic was “Unsticking Your Business – Overcoming the Top 10 Reasons for Business Failure.” As I began to speak, I was interrupted with a question in the middle of my introduction.
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Greetings Leaders! I’ve given a lot of thought to what constitutes leadership, and I sometimes think we’re mixing apples and oranges. Is it our job as leaders to ensure that people in our organization feel good about themselves? Is it our purpose to help them find fulfilling work, or to provide the work and let
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Greetings Leaders… This is the 11th posting in the series The Path of the Honorable Leader The Path of the Honorable Leader can be a strange place at times. The Honorable Leader, fully awake, fully conscious, notices that many others are asleep as he encounters them on his journey. What is obvious to the Honorable
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Greetings Leaders! My daughter and I were watching Tabatha’s Salon Takeover on Bravo the other night where one of the hairstylists was obviously a poor performer. She wasn’t great at time management, talked incessantly about herself, disregarded her client’s time constraints, was a poor listener, didnt’ take criticism to heart and was a drag on
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Greetings Leaders! Many of you have been in the situation where C-level executives initiate a project with vague requirements, no resources and… a project end date. Executives are often the underlying cause of many failed projects. They have a vision, or an obligation to move the organization forward. After all, isn’t that their job? They
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Greetings Leaders! This it the seventh in The Path of the Honorable Leader series. The Path of the Honorable Leader is clearly defined. The Honorable Leader knows where she is going. At times, the path is obscured in fog, hiding what lies ahead. Squinting, she tries to pierce the fog so that she can plot
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Greetings Leaders! The Cloud has become a hot topic in business. What is The Cloud you ask? It has its origins, I think, in the network diagrams that techies have drawn for years. You know, that weird diagram that often gets drawn on a whiteboard that depicts some computers and a server, connected to a
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Gina Abudi – Contributing Expert Understanding the value of project management to the organization is one of the biggest challenges for leaders. Too often project management is considered as tactical – with no real thought or understanding of the strategic value of project management. However, shortchanging project management not only hinders an organization trying to
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Greetings Leaders! If Project Management keeps its promises, your project success rate should go up. For many organizations, it doesn’t. What gives? If you’ve spent a lot of time and money on project management, but your success rate hasn’t improved, don’t feel badly, as you’re not alone.
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