My article for PM World Today: "Top 10 Tips For Marketing A Book Using Social Media" (2012) The tips are designed to help NOT JUST BOOK WRITERS but anyone who wants to do SM marketing. Feel free to add your #1 tip as a REPLY (below). And also see... My Podcast Interview: "Are You A PM? [...]
One of the best leadership books I have ever read is: The Manager's Book of Decencies: How Small Gestures Build Great Companies, by Steve Harrison (McGraw-Hill), for all project managers, team leaders, and executives. Steve Harrison is Chairman of Lee, Hecht, Harrison, the premier career management and leadership consulting firm. He is also the former [...]
BUT FIRST... some photos from the AgileNYC Open this week in Manhattan: - Agile NYC Open <-- A gallery of photos of this week's Agile NYC Open at Pace U. (courtesy of Larry Mantrone, PMP/CSM) - Ilio Krumins-Beens <-- One of the Agile Instructors at the event, leading an excellent seminar at the Agile NYC Open - ShortVideo.Morning.AgileNYCOpen <-- A short [...]
LINK: Review of my book "The Project Management Answer Book" by: The American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (affiliated with the International Association of Project Management). You might also be interested in: - My new article: "Top 10 Tips For Marketing A Book Using Social Media" - My upcoming PMP classes: "3 classes [...]
Brainstorming is a long-favored method from PMI as a best practice tool, especially used in Requirements Gathering and in Risk Identification. However... an article in the current New Yorker, January 30, 2012, by Jonah Lehrer, entitled: “GROUPTHINK,” has applicability to Project Management teams. Based on an extensive study by Charlan Nemeth, professor of psychology at UCLA in [...]
A way to share good info (and get exposure and extra mileage out of your presentations) is with SlideShare. This is one of the APPS which Linkedin recently made available to subscribers to help you enhance your profile. STEPS IN LINKEDIN: Step 1. Edit your Profile Step 2. Go to APPLICATIONS, and click on "Add [...]
PMI has just added my book: "The Project Management Answer Book" to their listings on their eReads & References page. Question: Did you know about this benefit for PMI members? Here's what PMI says about their eReads & References page: "Use eReads & References as an on-the-job guide, a research and study aid, or to preview [...]
I attended another great PMI conference (my third-in-a-row) in Dallas last week. If you attended also, Please share Your Highlights in the "Leave a Reply" box. 1. Keynote Speaker: Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink," "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers." Much of his talk was about Steve Jobs, and how he felt that Jobs epitomized the [...]
"The Project Management Answer Book" will help you increase your knowledge and get your PMP, as it has for many Project Managers in the U.S. and around the world. It was recently named one of the "Top 10 Books Every Project Manager Should Have In His Or Her Collection" by Bright Hub and has also received very [...]
The other day I was meeting with the senior manager and he told me that one of his biggest problems is poor Ethics in his employees. He said he felt that Ethics was impossible to screen for in applicants, because A) every candidate will say he or she is very ethical, and B) [...]