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PPP 156 | The Messy Project Manager, with author Tim Harford
Episode 156
What Good is a Mess?
As a profession, project managers have a tendency toward the tidy. Would you agree? I'm not talking about tidy in terms of clean…
9 years, 8 months ago
PPP 155 | How to Keep Your Project Stakeholders Engaged, with Dr. Lynda Bourne
Episode 155
You Have More Stakeholders Than You Realize
One of the primary reasons so much of our emphasis on The People and Projects Podcast is on the people si…
9 years, 9 months ago
PPP 154 | What Project Managers Need to Know About Office Politics, with Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker
Episode 154
Playing the Game or Just Getting Played?
In this episode, I welcome Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game or Just Getting Pla…
9 years, 10 months ago
PPP 153 | The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Project Leader, with Best-Selling Author Jim Kouzes
Episode 153
How to Become a Better Leader
In this episode, I welcome back leadership researcher and author Jim Kouzes. Jim joined us back in episode 62 to talk a…
9 years, 11 months ago
PPP 152 | How Scrum Helps You Do Twice the Work in Half the Time, with Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland
Episode 152
Too Good to Be True?
In this episode, I welcome Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland. He's the author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the W…
10 years ago
PPP 151 | How to Deal With Bullies on Project Teams, with Paul Pelletier, LL.B., PMP
Episode 151
Tough Boss or Bully?
In this episode, I welcome workplace bullying expert Paul Pelletier. He's a lawyer, a PMP, and author of Workplace Bullying: It'…
10 years, 1 month ago
PPP 150 | Why Project Managers Need to Say Less and Ask More To Be Better Leaders, with Michael Bungay Stanier
Episode 150
Ask More, Talk Less
In this episode, I welcome Michael Bungay Stanier, founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Michael is the author of a new b…
10 years, 2 months ago
PPP 149 | (Video) Project Management is a Performance--And Why That Idea Matters, with author Cathy Salit
Episode 149
All the World's a Stage
Could it be that everything we do is a performance? Every interaction, at work and at home? That's the premise of Cathy Salit…
10 years, 3 months ago
PPP 148 | Negotiating the Conflicts That Suck the Life Out of You, with Harvard's Daniel Shapiro
Episode 148
Negotiating Emotionally Charged Conflicts
In this episode, I welcome Harvard's Daniel Shapiro to talk about his new book Negotiating the Nonnegotiabl…
10 years, 3 months ago
PPP 147 | Why Your Technical Project Management Skills Aren't Enough, with guest Dave Wakeman
Episode 147
Beyond Gantt Charts and Critical Path
In this episode, I welcome Dave Wakeman from Wakeman Consulting Group to talk about Strategic and Business Mana…
10 years, 3 months ago