We all have things we’re known for. In my case, you give me a team that’s completely demoralized and dysfunctional, and I’ll turn it around and get it working effectively again. To that point, someone asked me a couple days ago, “Geoff I hear you’re really good at getting people to work together. How do [...]

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I warn you now. Despite the fact I’m a 42 year old banking vet, I still have fanboy issues (although not in the Kathy Bates kind of way).

As some of you have noticed, I was very pleased to have Chris Brogan comment on my blog recently. Not only did it feel super [...]

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(A guest post by Rick Valerga, author of The Cure for the Common Project)

About a week ago, project management author Rick Valerga approached me through the blog to chat about social media. We hit it off right away and I immediately vomited a thousand random thoughts onto him. In retrospect, [...]

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The Ties That Bind

On April 10, 2011 By

I attended a funeral this weekend. It was for my father’s cousin at whose house I spent so much of my childhood. We weren’t particularly close–I haven’t seen her in years. However, I understand towards the end she became a shut-in, and when she died, she died alone. That made me very sad.

Like many [...]

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You know, every once in awhile you stop and reflect on formative moments that helped to shape you into what you’ve become. I’m not really sure why but today I remembered a moment from my childhood that I found particularly significant and I thought I’d share it with you.

When I was a kid, my [...]

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The Soft Skill Salsa

On March 9, 2011 By

I wanted to thank Samad Aidane and Shawna Dodge for a fabulous job putting together the Project Management Telesummit. It’s going on until tomorrow, but so far there have been some really fabulous speakers. Traci Duez, Peter Taylor and [...]

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In 2000, a the height of the dot com craze, I was contracted to build an e-commerce site. I had three months basically to build a portal for online trading of bonds, money market and foreign exchange products, translate it into six different Asian languages, and get it [...]

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A few years ago I was managing a complex enterprise program where we had a status review meeting with our vendor every Wednesday. I inherited these meetings from my predecessor. Weekly reviews are important, so I kept them. We had appropriate representation with myself, the vendor, and the program’s key stakeholders. We had a weekly [...]

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