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Project Management

Mini Saga – Reward (Or do you feel like being squeezed?)

March 12, 2011

Effective leaders believe in developing their team members. First, they recognize potential in a team member and then do everything possible to make sure that the selected team member play to his/her own limits and reward him/her self, the project and the organization at large. Often team members guess that their boss uses their skills [...]

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Are You Limited by Your Own Creativity (Which used to work earlier but now not)?

March 8, 2011

Though it brings rewards in the end, most of us are afraid of challenging our own thought patterns as if it were an invasive brain surgery. We’re designed this way, right? Wrong. But yes, we’re conditioned this way. Few weeks ago I had a weekend discussion with one of my friends who shares a rare frequency [...]

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7 Bloggers I Enjoy Reading Almost All The Times

January 23, 2011

Nicholas Bate of Strategic Edge: Bate has a unique style of creating contexts with numbers. Very quantitative. For example 2011: Year of Transformation 100/25. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership: All about leadership and management. Host of the Leadership Development Carnival.  A recent must read:  What Trust And Integrity Mean to Rewards and Recognition, right here. [...]

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Superb Contract Negotiation Skills That May Not Be Needed!

January 14, 2011

… if you do things differently. For example, consider the following conversation: Photo Credit: Maveric2003 Client: I need to implement XYZ feature on top of agreed upon requirements. I would expect that the deadline is not changed.  Your team is working on my project for last 6 months but now the business dynamics have changed [...]

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Doesn’t Matter Who Does It

January 13, 2011

In project management, who does it, matters. Yep! If your project is such no one can do it, success is at stake. And if your project is such anyone can do it, it doesn’t matter even if you’ll achieve the success. You’re no longer making any difference. Key here is to have right people doing [...]

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