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Category: project management
Necessary Ingredients To Improve Organizational Performance: Executive Imperatives
An update is available as a LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/executive-imperatives-necessary-ingredients-improve-updated-englund/. A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of executive imperatives—necessary and high priority actions. Personal experiences reveal that an essential focus on creating excellence in people, processes, and the working environment reaps tremendous benefits and enables executives…
L2M2 as Secret Recipe for Success
Here is an article to help ensure small efforts are expended in the right direction to optimize large results. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/small-effortlarge-impact-secret-recipe-randall-randy-englund/?published=t
The Complete Project Manager Highlights
The Innovation Global Network now includes Highlights from The Complete Project Manager.
What’s the [Complete] Idea?
Introduction to the big idea about what is a more complete project manager and to the NEW Second Edition of The Complete Project Manager https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-complete-big-idea-randall-randy-englund/
Achieving Better Outcomes Through Negotiations
How can you assure negotiated outcomes are achieved effectively and efficiently? Are you a successful negotiator? You certainly can be when you adopt an open mindset and develop negotiating skills. A Good Outcome Notice the good, the bad, and the ugly in what happens during a negotiation and how a sample dialogue proceeds. It is…
Discovering and Appreciating What We Do Well
This article depicts implementation of appreciative inquiry to discover and leverage personal and organizational strengths.
Expand Your Green Space
View this LinkedIn posting that describes the intersection of project managers, sponsors, and environment–your “green” space. As opposed to “toxic”, which is common in many organizations, the more these three elements work together, the larger the green space–a harmonious and productive working environment. Make a commitment to contribute your best efforts on this worthy campaign.
Getting Better Solutions–a Guide to Gathering Wisdom
Better solutions to challenges are out there. It’s a matter of capturing them. A systematic process for doing so exists, along with data for showing it works. View the complete post on linkedin.com.
Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success – AGAIN
My article titled: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success has “Published” on Monday, August 14, 2017 on the Portal ProjectTimes. Below is a link to the article. It highlights the pervasive problem surrounding lack of project support from upper managers and suggests actions to take. https://www.projecttimes.com/articles/achieving-management-commitment-for-project-success.html
Are You Getting the Support You Need? Probably NOT!
In this blog post, I highlight the dismal state of upper management support for projects, then reference suggestions that would help.