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Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 26 October 2014

Paranoid project and program managers perform and succeed

By Forman, James B. | Discenza, Richard Project and program managers need to develop a healthy degree of paranoia regardless of their natural dispositions. As former Intel CEO Andy Grove reminded his employees, "only the paranoid survive…

Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 26 October 2014

Managing challenges of leading, motivating, and grooming talent in small teams

By Khanna, Vimal Kumar Managing large projects and project teams is a complex problem, producing a significant amount of published work focused on addressing the associated challenges. However, a number of projects, both…

Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 29 October 2013

Forming new productivity habits in project teams

By Filev, Andrew A main ingredient of project success is the project team's productivity habits. Leading neuroscience and behavioral research shows that habits take time to develop. Citing research and industry…

Article Career Development, Teams, Skill Development December 2010

Project Management Journal

An exploratory study of gender in project management

By Henderson, Linda S. | Stackman, Richard W. In decades past, project management was primarily a male-dominated discipline. But over the past decade, women have increasingly gained prominence--as practitioners, scholars, and teachers--and are…

Conference Paper Teams, Organizational Culture, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

Leading multinational project teams

By Thamhain, Hans J. Over the past decade, project management researchers have developed a significant body of knowledge exploring the dynamics and difficulties involved in managing contemporary project teams. And much…

Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

The N.O. L.I.M.I.T.S. approach to virtual team projects

By Walker, Loran W. Because organizations worldwide are increasingly assembling globally distributed and virtually connected project teams to implement critical enterprise initiatives, contemporary project managers…

Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

Building camarderie and accountability in your project meetings

By Brownlee, Dana As the global economy begins to recover, many organizations are establishing practices for building better run organizations, practices that often focus on making personnel accountable for their…

Conference Paper Communications Management, Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

Don't make an ass out of you and me--using assumptions effectively

By Kinser, John When developing project plans, estimates, and objectives, all project participants--project managers, team members, and stakeholders--make an array of assumptions that influence their decisions…

Conference Paper Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

Moving from project management to project leadership

By Bull, R Camper As all project professionals know, technology has redefined how organizations function and how project teams work. The traditional approach of developing a co-located team--which worked intensively…

Conference Paper Communications Management, Teams, Leadership, Skill Development 12 October 2010

Situational project management

By Davis, David L. Project team conflicts can break a project effort. But when facilitated by an experienced project manager, teams can overcome such differences and instead focus their energies on working together to…