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Being Positive

by Alec Satin

This morning I found myself once again taking a negative tone in a conversation. A coworker was speaking to me about the benefits of life in Australia over the United States. When I came to myself I realized that I was again spouting facts and figures about the declining US Middle Class (see here, here, or here). All these things may be true. But who likes a pontificator? I sure don’t want to be one.
Negativity as an indicator
When I catch myself holding negativity in a conversation, I’m usually feeling indignation at an injustice being done to some group of people.
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What to learn next…it’s your big chance

by Alec Satin

A senior project manager started work in an IT Project Management Office. He had more than 15 years of experience, interviewed well and came with good references. At first everything seemed fine. Yet he appeared stressed whenever he had to join a conference line, connect to the internet messaging client (which was a requirement for work at home), or publish a project plan. It turns out that he did not know how to operate Windows XP, and was at the most basic level with MS Word.

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7 Marks of a Great Project Management Office

by Alec Satin

Bad project management offices (PMO)s are easy to describe. You may have had to work with one at some point. Notice the words, had to work with one. People will do anything possible to minimize their interactions with a bad PMO. Poor PMOs don’t care. They have little contact with the people in the organization actually doing the work. Their focus is on compliance by force. Communication flows one way – from them to you.

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Dealing with Stress at Work – Solutions Linkfest

by Alec Satin

Too busy to even read this post? If you take just 10 minutes right now ((Take a look now – we both know the likelihood is you won’t get a chance to come back to this post.)) to review these links, you may find an idea or two that could really help.

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PM Twitter Tweets – Revisited

by Alec Satin

Based on your positive feedback from the March project management and career twitter tweets post, here are some management, leadership and inspirational tweets you might enjoy.

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