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  • The Gower Handbook of People in Project Management

  • How to Find a Job Without Losing Your Self-Respect

    I received a lot of great feedback both on and offline about my last article regarding the state of recruitment. It’s a tough subject for a lot of folks because hiring (or the lack of) is something that hits home for a lot of us. Well, I know that a lot of you are freelancers and it’s not enough to […]

  • Hostage Negotiation and Project Management

    So what does a project manager have in common with a terrorist negotiator? Well, if they’re both doing their jobs right, they’re driving specific behaviours from the people with whom they’re working. That’s right, a hostage negotiator’s job is to get a terrorist to act in a way that the negotiator wants them to. Do you think that works by […]

  • Negotiation is Never About You! Part 1

    Okay, so yesterday I got a bit snarky and went on a terrible rant about poor Prince Humphrey and the abysmal negotiation tactics that got him into trouble. Today I wanted to calm things down and talk about negotiation a little bit. I have some specific suggestions for new negotiators that might help smooth the waters. Negotiation is something we […]

  • Updates and Stuff

    This post is for my regular readers who’ve been following my tribulations over the last few months. It’s been kind of eventful, which surprised me. For the last two years my life has moved at a snail’s pace. Stuff happens here, stuff happens there, but nothing’s really been accomplished. Blogging’s been pretty much the only thing that kept me sane […]

  • Non-Assertive People Aren’t Always Wimps

    The other day I wrote a response to Elizabeth Harrin’s post about measuring the success of project management training. I’ve been thinking about that post off-and-on since I wrote it. I’ve especially been thinking about the example I gave about a stakeholder who doesn’t want to box himself into a charter. My comment there was, “take a negotiations class”, which […]

  • Impostor Syndrome Win!

    Okay, so as many of you know, recent challenges in my life caused me to say, “the hell with it” and go back to school to finish my degree. It’s been a very busy time, which included relocation, a dog that’s not sure what’s going on, getting re-registered at the university, and starting up. As the summer session is only […]

  • WTF Where Did Geoff Go?

    Many of you have been asking me behind-the-scenes, “dude, what’s going on?!” It’s true, I kind of dropped off the face of the earth recently, so I’d like to let you all know what’s been happening. Well, as many of you know I’ve been grappling with the job search recently, and it hasn’t gone particularly well. Some of you may […]