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Be a Wildly Successful Project Manager – Do What You Say You’re Going To Do

by Alec Satin

Here are the 10 Keys:

Develop a consistently positive attitude.
Make wise choices.
Believe in your abilities.
Be a master at setting goals and achieving them.
Have a clear vision of what success means to you and to
your project.
Develop steady, positive habits.
Show persistence.
Over-communicate.
Be transparent.
Do what you say you will do without exception.

This is item 10 in the Being a Wildly Successful Project Manager Series. You can read the first article here.
Let your Yes Be Yes
One of the quickest ways to be effective on your project is to consistently do what you say. This means you do exactly what you say. You do it when [...]

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How do you treat the waiters on your project team?

by Alec Satin

Last week Lori and I took a working vacation on Cape Cod. Have you ever taken one of these? Meetings are by conference call. Your laptop comes with you. You find yourself in a beautiful locale, preferably with someone you love. While perhaps not exactly restful, such times can be incredibly refreshing and stimulating.
On the way to the Cape we had a fantastic meal in Mystic, CT at the Captain Daniel Packer Inne, which is recommended if ever you find yourself in that part of the world. While waiting I read a column in a local paper which talked about [...]

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Are You a Project Manager from Hell?

by Alec Satin

If you are like most people, you can think of at least a few terrible project managers.
These may be people who have supervised you directly or who you’ve witnessed interact destructively with their direct reports.
There’s a strange disconnect here. Even though we all know of these managers, virtually none of us would consider ourselves a project manager from hell. Are we deceiving ourselves? Or, are we really immune to this behavior we so quickly condemn in others?
The project manager from hell series
Poor managers are the biggest threat to successful projects. Like most of you reading this, I have witnessed firsthand [...]

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Quote – Want to earn more? Learn more

by Alec Satin

(Image from dkgoodman.com)
If you want to earn more – learn more. If you want to get more out of the world you must put more into the world. For, after all, men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
- William J.H. Boetcker
Here are some other aphorisms attributed to William Boetcker:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish [...]

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