Google Spent $2M Learning This: Safe Teams Outperform Smart Teams
The $2 Million Question That Changed Everything In 2012, Google launched one of the most comprehensive team effectiveness studies in corporate history. They called it Project Aristotle, named after the philosopher's observation that "the whole is greater than the sum...
Why Your Best Project Managers Are Talking About Feelings
The Meeting That Changed Our Trajectory In nearly 30 years of corporate project management, I've facilitated hundreds of executive sessions. But one particular quarterly review stands out. Our CEO paused mid-presentation, looked around the conference room, and said...
Making Customers Happy With Project Management
Isn’t it nice when projects run smoothly, teammates work seamlessly together, and deliverables knock all the targets out of the park? I’d say that’s a dream project for every PM I know. Sadly, in reality, we’re more likely to find disagreement somewhere along the way....
Continuous Improvement: Little Steps to Better Project Management
The field of project management is a complex one. It combines technical expertise with efficient processes and the soft skills necessary to collaborate as a team and accomplish a desired outcome. And it happens at every scale, from tiny, one-person jobs to massive...
Adopting Online Collaboration in Your Organization
Online collaboration has transformed how organizations of all sizes and industries interact and perform. From one-person businesses leveraging automation to scale with ease to large multinationals interacting remotely with clients and teams, technology has countless...
Choosing the Best Project Management Methodology for Your Team
Project management is one of those skills most people think they have, but few actually do. It combines people skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to implement replicable processes to ensure sustained success for your organization and clients. Thankfully, the...
Best practices for virtual project management
Remote collaboration has represented a transformation in the way we work. It enables teams from across the world to partner as effectively as they would sitting across the same conference table. Employees can boost their productivity through automation and more...
What Is Overservicing, and How Does It Hurt Your Team?
Fierce competition and an increasingly complex business environment have made organizations fight for attention like never before. B2B buyers have more information available and more options to choose from than they ever had, and it’s transformed the way your business...
Risk Management: Planning for the Unexpected
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to guess everything that could go wrong — and come up with a step-by-step plan to address it before it even happens? Of course, it’s pretty much impossible to guess the future. However, we can make educated predictions and projections —...