Communication And Project Leadership: The 2009 Model

Last year, I summarized my ideas from 2008 in a post called “Second Turn: Structure For Resilience“. This year I expanded on those ideas, putting more emphasis on communication, culture and the role of the Project Leader. This post is my attempt to summarize the main concepts. It’s a work in process, so feedback is …

Mastering Three Spaces: Personal, Reputation And Project

Do you remember last years “The Four Dharmas Of Project Management“? “I learned that you cannot jump from the PMBoK directly to topics like “mental flexibility” and “emotional intelligence”. I am sorry to tell you, but most people cannot make that jump that fast. A path to “project enlightenment” has to be defined. Conveniently, I …

Consultative Selling And Customers’ Needs Identification

A year ago I published a series of postings on this blog about “The Fish Pond“-metaphor. Its purpose is to make some sense of complexity, humans, projects and globalization. I wrote the series together with dr. Ali Anani. This great experience shaped the way I currently think about complexity and human networks. He recently published …

The Partial Project Manager

In this posting I am going to tell you what the main theme of my blog is… wow. Do I really have an answer? Six weeks ago I released the first draft of my ebook “Project Shrink: Linear Edition“. The reason for publishing unfinished work is to get early feedback. I am very happy to …

What Was The First Model You Used?

Craig from Better Projects asked me and other PM / BA bloggers a question that took me almost 3 weeks to answer (Am I getting slower? Approaching almost 40 so …:): “Recall the first and last analysis model you used at work. The first model I can recall using was a SWOT analysis back in …