How do you get your team all fired up and motivated? The answer might be: Hot Causes and Cool Solutions! In his book “Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations“, author Hayagreeva Rao explains that … “… if you want to mobilize networks of people and markets to embrace and spread an idea, …
Why should people want to work on your project? You know about globalization, you know this makes employees competing with people from all over the world. Have you considered The Other Consequence? That you have to compete with other GLOBAL companies and Project Managers to get good people to staff your projects? If developers, testers …
When your company is struggling with projects, when all Project Managers are PMP certified, when every conceivable procedure seems to be in place, it is time to turn to The Fifth Discipline. No, this is not some kind of dark society. It is the art of creating a learning organization.
Photography: Sylt August by knudsburg With large groups and a lot of time pressure you don’t always spend enough effort in communicating the overall perspective of the project. Too bad, because emphasizing the “bigger picture” helps stakeholders to keep in line and, if done properly, enhance motivation among the team (they wanna be part of …
This week I run a short series on the behavior of individuals in general. From a very high level perspective the behavior of a person is determined by who he is; how he is at the moment; what he wants, and what he thinks will happen. What he wants This is actually the 64 million …