Being fired is like a divorce and based on today’s statistics, that doesn’t sound good. So many articles cover the fact that 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce. Interestingly enough, other articles say 50% of all hires…

I have been contemplating how the Project Management practice, especially in a Project/Program Management Office (PMO), is progressing in the 21stCentury. I hear about organizations investing a good amount of capital and resources in building a PMO, then disbanding it…

Blogger is Google’s free web tool for creating blog sites. That’s the traditional intent of the product. While it is a great tool for blogging, Blogger is also a terrific tool to create very cost effective and fairly robust professional websites. Such websites…

Bad hires are expensive based on an interesting survey performed by CareerBuilder revealed that 41 percent of companies estimate that a bad hire costs more than $25,000; 25 percent of companies said a bad hire costs more than $50,000. And…

You’ve heard this before: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Of course it helps to know things. But, it’s more important to know people who can get you in the position to demonstrate what you know. Those…

Co-authored by Benny Recine and Harvey Greenstein I have asked a colleague and friend of mine, Harvey Greenstein, to co-author this topic. Stakeholder analysis is infrequently done by Project Managers (PMs) because it can be time consuming, especially if the…

Many people are looking desperately for suitable jobs, but ask yourself whether you’re just working hard at it or smart at it. Many get so disappointed by the entire process that they give up entirely. Please don’t! Via this article,…

I am on vacation and not even on American soil. It is a vastly different milieu in almost every respect. I find myself continuously comparing, contrasting, judging, and labeling people. Of course, this continuous chatter is only in my head.…

Want to Change Career? No surprise that in this economy more and more people are toying around with the idea of changing careers. For some, such a change represents an opportunity; for others, it may be a necessity because their…