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What does Red, Amber and Green Mean for Your Projects?

Stop light reports are a great way to report on the status of your project to your stakeholders and they also provide a quick reporting from my team members to me at each team meeting (enabling us to reduce the time we meet!).

Let’s define (overall) what each of the colors means:

Red [...]

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The Challenges of Entrepreneurship

A recent article in Business on Main, 10 Solutions to Fix Young America and Rebuild the Economy, provided ways that we, as a society, can support those young Americans interested in building their business. Many of the ideas provided are of value to any age entrepreneur and provide some food for thought. Entrepreneurship, however, [...]

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Taking the First Steps in Understanding What’s Going Wrong on Your Project

One of the most important tasks you have as the project manager is monitoring the progress of the project. This can be especially challenging on large, complex global projects and certainly when you are working on the project along with managing the project.

By keeping track of the project through meetings, status updates and [...]

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No More Whining Please!

A little less whining and we could get more done. Seriously. Rather than whining about everything, teams would do well to find solutions to issues that arise and take a positive approach to their work. I was working with a team recently that had a number of problems thrown at them. And I’ll admit [...]

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4 Ways NOT to be a Micromanager

No doubt somewhere in the past (or currently!) we have all had a micromanager. Someone who feels they need to watch over our shoulder and guide every task we do with step-by-step instructions. Maybe you have been one yourself in the past or currently are a micromanager. New managers in particular are susceptible to [...]