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 [...]
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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 [...]
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