Somewhere during the summer CNN fired its Middle East affairs editor Octavia Nasr. I read about it in Thomas Friedman’s column in The New York Times. Although his article was about why she got fired, what struck me in this piece was this sentence: “… we also gain a great deal by having an Arabic-speaking, …
We all learn important things from the people we work with. One of the first things I learned was to celebrate early. If you have the funds in your project budget for one team party, do it at the beginning of the project, not at the end. Celebrate you are going to work together. Fun, …
In episode 14 of Project Potion, Dave and Bas talk about language issues when working abroad and the need for diversity in teams. Of course, they also talks shortly about the World Cup. Subscribe to the Podcast
How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly similar. The article describes three rules to create successful virtual …
Do you want to know how Social Media can be used to boost project success? Do you? We already know the answer for a couple of years. But not everyone is looking for it in the right direction. Virtual teams. In 2004 the Harvard Business Review published a great article by Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, …