Project Management
Joan Knutson on Linking Strategy, Execution and Project Management
Project management is an essential tool to execute a strategy, but often poorly utilized. Here's how to make it work.
May 9, 2008 / Podcast # 08-19
Joan Knutson is founder and manager of Project Mentors, a successful multimillion dollar project management training and consulting firm. Joan is the author of Project Management: How to Plan and Manage Successful Project (AMACOM), Succeeding in Project-Driven Organizations: People, Processes, and Politics (John Wiley and Sons) and Project Management for Business Professionals: A Comprehensive Guide (John Wiley and Sons). Read more…
Jane Linder on the Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives
Stunning accomplishments never come from following the management cookbook, no matter how much care and discipline we use in sticking to the recipe.
November 30, 2007 / Podcast # 07-33
Have you ever wondered why so-called “best management practice” produces mediocre results? What if a team wanted to do something truly spectacular? What if it wanted to make a real impact?
In her new book Spiral Up. . . and Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives, Jane C. Linder argues that if you want to work wonders, you’ve got to abandon the accepted, linear, day-by-day management mindset and step into the real world. It’s anything but mechanical.
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Kevan Hall on Speed Management
Is there such a thing as too much teamwork?
May 11, 2007 / Podcast # 07-04
Kevan Hall founded Global IntegrationTM in 1994, to develop “the skills of working internationally” for the world’s leading companies. He realized that the tools he and his colleagues developed for complex international, virtual, remote and matrixed organizations were based on creating underlying speed and simplicity and were applicable to almost any complex company. Read more…