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Leadership

7 Lessons Learned from a Heart Attack Scare

by Alec Satin

Tuesday I found myself in the cardiac care unit of NYU Langone Medical Center. On the way to the emergency room I wondered for a few minutes if I were on my way to meet my old friend John Harrell on the other side.

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6 Lessons on Leadership from Captain Bligh

by Alec Satin

Observing some of the actions and attitudes of the cold, hard Captain William Bligh can provide you with a measure to use against your own behavior as a project manager.

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Mentoring how to: Mentor and be mentored!

by Alec Satin

This month I had my first meeting with a new mentor. We met after work at the Radiance tea house in Manhattan. The location was convenient. The atmosphere was soothing, quiet and conducive to the kind of focused and relaxed conversation which marks good mentoring. I left feeling hopeful, inspired and ready to act.

Have you ever thought of working with a mentor? Here are some guidelines.

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Manage Your Least Favorite Stakeholder

by Alec Satin

“Stakeholder Management” is one of those terms that could easily be removed from our project management vocabulary. The next time you hear it in conversation imagine that what was really said was “stakeholder manipulation”. Would the sentence still make sense?
People are smart. Manipulation seldom works in the long run, and especially in complicated group endeavors like most technology projects.
Stakeholder as Enemy
When did it become acceptable to have an US versus THEM attitude in regard to our stakeholders? I remember counseling a fellow project manager about a web content project he was managing. The gist of the conversation was how bad [...]

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Who and Where? New Leaders and Directions

by Alec Satin

(This is a guest post by Stefano Paolinelli, PMP.)
These are tough times, the toughest since the great depression, according to many experts. Often you need to hit the bottom before great things start to happen. Michael Jordan used to say that you can be great only after failing and learning from those failures.
I have seen political changes and demands for government transparency, at a national and local level, as never before. It also seems unprecedented the way people are questioning boards and executives of major corporations. These organizations must change and adapt to the needs of the new market to [...]

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