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Other Reasons to Network

Oct 21, 2013 | Consulting Sales

A year or so ago I was speaking to a client and suggested that we connect via LinkedIn. He shook his head and told me that he wasn’t on LinkedIn because he didn’t want his boss to think he was looking for a job. I shuddered at that, considering I’ve been connected on...

Why Are We Here? Is the Daily Question

Oct 15, 2013 | Career Management

How often have you entered a meeting wondering why everyone was being brought together for an hour? How many times have you left the meeting wondering the same thing? Did it ever occur to you that people may be wondering the same thing when they enter and exit a...

Good Project Connections

Oct 7, 2013 | Communication

I recently completed a home improvement project to install an underground sprinkler system in my yard. After digging trenches up and down and around the house and running tubing in each direction, I needed to splice the tubing at several points with a tee or an elbow...

Communicating Bad News to Clients

Oct 1, 2013 | Client relations

To paraphrase a common saying, stuff happens. No one knows that more than a client-serving consultant. Whether you’re working on a large project or working independently. Rarely does everything go as planned. At some time, you find yourself face to face with the...

What Project Management Means to Me

Sep 25, 2013 | Career Management

I’ve been blogging for about three years now. Today I’m trying something a bit different. I’m participating in a Flash Blog. More than forty bloggers are contributing a blog at the same time on the same day with the same title: What Project Management Means to me: A...

Imagine No Employees

Sep 16, 2013 | Career Management

Outsourcing has become common over the past several years. Nearly every organization deals with outsourcing of some sort. It is a bit controversial. When companies outsource with offshore workers, we hear complaints of moving our jobs overseas, putting our own...