26
Nov
When I am telling in front of project management audience the sentence “You are excellent” some professionals smile and understand I am being so generous with them. But it’s not the real truth. If you say to yourself that you are excellent, you are obliged to be one. Please repeat the sentence “I am excellent” […]
20
Nov
Every project manager wants to be encouraged and inspired. But when we are talking about personal growth: motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. If you want to grow, be consistent. Discipline means being able to make efforts in a consistent way every day to achieve your objectives and remember that you can […]
18
Sep
I feel sorry for the project manager who does not believe in his or her project. Nothing great was ever achieved without passion. Yet over the years, I have detected a lack of passion in some European project managers at multinational companies. I strongly believe passion is contagious—leaders need to transmit positive energy. In 2000, […]
09
Sep
Many years ago, I was asked to examine the status of project management in Spain by the First Global Project Management Forum in New Orleans, La., USA. At that time, there was not a single PMI Chapter in Spain, although other project management associations, such as Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), Asociación Española […]
29
Aug
As project management practitioners, we deal with people on an almost daily basis. And as more and more projects go global, team members from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds are being asked to work together. Some years ago, I worked on a multinational program team. The U.S. program manager supervised a group of project managers […]