Your ability to successfully contribute to a project team depends a lot on your ability to relate effectively to people. Managing relationships is the core to managing; managing your managers, managing your team and managing other stakeholders. There are no neutral relationships; every relationship you have influences you and can lift you up or weigh […]
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Describing scheduling, Earned Value and financial management as ‘project controls’ is, I would suggest dangerous! The steering mechanism on a car is a control system, you move the steering wheel and the front wheels turn; and if the car is in motion its direction of travel is altered. Control systems cause a change. Altering the
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The long-awaited changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition are welcome, and much needed. LA HABRA, Aug 1, 2013 – The recent release of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition finally addresses the issue of stakeholder management, providing much-needed guidance, according to
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Ethical management and corporate governance are about balancing the competing needs of all of the organisations stakeholders, balancing long and short term goals and being socially responsible (CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility). The good news is empirical studies consistently show organisations that focus on these objectives also consistently out perform those seeking excessive profits in
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