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Monetary Bonus Incentives Make Knowledge Workers Less Effective

Thumbnail image for Monetary Bonus Incentives Make Knowledge Workers Less Effective by Josh January 25, 2012 Grab Bag

I have found this to be true in my own experience. The way to really engage teams and get them motivated to do great things is to empower them, build trust with them, and help them recognize they are awesome and doing awesome things. I got a bonus in my paycheck this year. Meh. It [...]

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Project Management Myths Debunked

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Oh yes, let’s have fun with this one, shall we? I want your myths in the comments, bucko! Good Project Managers Make All Decisions By Themselves While it’s true that project managers do have to make the final decisions in many cases on a daily basis, we certainly should not make them by ourselves. We [...]

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How to Find the Right Organizations For Your Project Management Career

Thumbnail image for How to Find the Right Organizations For Your Project Management Career by Josh January 18, 2012 Grab Bag

What’s the hardest part of landing a new role to advance your career? I asked this question in a poll recently on the Career in Project Management LinkedIn Group. The top answer was that finding organizations and jobs seems to be the toughest challenge, at least from the people who responded to the poll I [...]

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Project Management Classes and Subjects To Study

Thumbnail image for Project Management Classes and Subjects To Study by Josh January 12, 2012 Grab Bag

If I had only started sooner, I would be much further along in my own project management career. I’m sure you probably feel the same way. Here is someone just getting started who reached out to me for guidance. If you are starting out in your project management career (most of us are probably well [...]

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The Value of Professional Intuition in Project Management

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Should we trust our intuition? Find out in this guest post by Shim Marom Common wisdom will tell you that Intuition is an internal perception of reality that is not directly associated with any reasoning process. If you are a project manager early in your career you will most likely seek guidance and mentoring from more [...]

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Project Management Career — NGOs and Disaster-Emergency Relief

by Josh December 21, 2011 Career

An awesome question came into my email inbox the other day. This article contains important information for those of you interested in working for an NGO or similar organization, and an important case study in networking. Hello Josh, I am a human and medical science graduate with several year experience in diverse roles including Events [...]

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