How to Find the Right Organizations For Your Project Management Career

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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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5 Steps To Get Better All The Time

by Josh December 15, 2011 Grab Bag
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Improvement is easy. But only if it emerges over time, has buy-in from the people involved, and tracks with reality instead of the fantasy in some manager’s head. This approach comes from a long study of Lean and most recently inflences from the great book by Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. It’s simple and can [...]

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How To Commit Networking Suicide

Thumbnail image for How To Commit Networking Suicide by Josh December 7, 2011 Grab Bag

It’s happened a few times recently. Well-meaning and capable professionals are committing networking suicide in a desperate attempt to land a job. Here’s The Skinny I have received several broadcast emails where I’m among who knows how many people in the BCC line. The title is the person’s name or the type of job they [...]

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