I was recently interviewed by Cornelius Fichtner from The Project Management Podcast about The Proximal Decision Making Model. Here is the interview: Click here to listen to this interview right now: Here is what Cornelius writes about the interview: Decision making in project management can be hard. That is of course especially true if your [...]
You're only as good as your direct reports. Here's how to build a senior leadership team that makes breakthrough contributions to your business. The CIO of the future is the one whose senior IT team creates breakthroughs in its industry. How do CIOs build a senior leadership team of this caliber? The confidence to create breakthrough [...]
Do you delegate work? We have all been told that delegation is the way to get people engaged. If we delegate then people will have more buy in and be not only willing but excited to do the work. Right? Isn't that what you have heard. If you have tried it but haven't found it [...]
When you encounter a problem in your organization, what do you do? This filter model will help you take a methodical rather than haphazard approach to diagnosing your organizational dysfunction.
A tale of two teams The world cup this year is exciting. Everyone seems to be into it! I really don't know much about soccer/futbal But it is exciting whenever teams play well together. Which made me think. (...ripple effect...) Once there were two men, Manuel and Timothy, who lived in a small rural town in [...]
There is no doubt that business agility is necessary today, but are you ready? Is your organization able to absorb and adapt to change? Are your technical and business practices, your culture and leadership able to handle the stress of change? Or will they, when pushed and pulled by the stresses of rapid business change, [...]
Last night I was honored to be asked to be part of an expert panel discussion on creating an agile culture. I gave a short SHORT version of the presentation I have loaded here for you. I hope you enjoy them both. LIVE FROM POZNAN POLAND
In the first of a 3 part series. Frank Schittini shares with us how PMI came to offer an agile certification and some interesting details about the process. Joseph: Lets just jump right into it. PMI is known for being the organization that promotes what agilists call the traditional waterfall process. How did PMI end [...]