Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

In Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power Of Project Leadership , she recommends that you do not fall prey to these three most common traps in project management: Managing tasks, events and processes at the expense of leading people. Being reactive and focusing on the urgent rather than the important.

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15Five

AUGUST 27, 2024

If IQ was enough to make an amazing manager, every team would be led by rocket scientists and doctors. But there’s more that goes into being a manager than rattling off facts and thinking your way through complex problems. Emotional intelligence is a skill used to navigate relationships, handle emotions, and manage social situations.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

MARCH 8, 2023

Recently, it’s felt like my work as a project manager has been all about making sure the right people are lined up to do their tasks at the right time. Only 26% of organizations always use project resource management to estimate and allocate resources. That’s not enough.

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Mike Griffiths

MAY 30, 2021

It has been 10 years since the PMI-ACP exam was created, and I published my PMI-ACP Exam Prep book. In addition to an agnostic understanding of Lean, Kanban, Scrum and other agile approaches, we also agreed people should know about the basics of servant leadership, conflict management, team decision making, and coaching.

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Peter Winick

APRIL 8, 2024

Joining him is Anton Skornyakov, the Managing Director and co-founder of Agile.Coach, who brings a wealth of knowledge from his diverse background in mathematics, physics, and teaching Scrum methodologies. Anton’s journey from training to writing his book reflects his commitment to validating ideas through real-world applications.

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Mike Griffiths

JUNE 9, 2019

This is where product development books can help. As I was working with clients experiencing the transition from projects to products I was lucky to engage with several authors of product-first, #NoProjects books and chat about the challenge areas and potential solutions. Where did all the project managers go?

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Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Today’s guest post is b y Kim Wasson, a principal at thought LEADERS and author of The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills That Prevent Hard Days (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Kim Wasson describes a straightforward process for determining what might go wrong and whether it’s worth worrying about.

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Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In their "The State of the American Manager” study, Gallup found that half (50%) of all Americans have left a job to "get away from their manager at some point in their career.”. We've said it before, but it begs repeating: employees leave managers, not companies. And a bad manager can make employees leave in waves.

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Monday Task Management

JUNE 16, 2022

As a small business owner or manager, you’re already familiar with the grit and creativity it takes to stay relevant and reach new customers. Now you might be ready to explore digital growth efforts via direct sales or marketing, but managing all of it can be a task of its own. How do task management tools support digital growth?

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Mike Griffiths

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

While explaining project management through cartoon animals is fun, I wanted to post some meatier content here. The material comes from my Beyond Agile book and explains why a firm basis of EI is critical to becoming an effective Scrum Master, team lead, or project manager.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

MAY 24, 2022

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Risk management is too important to be left to risk managers.

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Thought Leaders LLC

APRIL 3, 2023

Management is a practice, not a profession or a science. To appreciate the true complexities of managing, we have to understand its intrinsic conundrums. Management is a practice, not a profession or a science. Management is a practice, not a profession or a science. Structuring in Sevens (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Monday Task Management

JUNE 16, 2022

As a small business owner or manager, you’re already familiar with the grit and creativity it takes to stay relevant and reach new customers. Now you might be ready to explore digital growth efforts via direct sales or marketing, but managing all of it can be a task of its own. How do task management tools support digital growth?

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Walk Me

AUGUST 14, 2023

Change control is a small (but very important) part of an overall change management process that deals with changes you might need to make to an initial plan. This article will explain the connection between change control and the larger change management process. Very few change projects achieve the precise outcomes they set out to.

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Mike Griffiths

AUGUST 20, 2021

Images that are surprising for the context, such as using animals to show project management topics, are “stickier” in our brains. In the book “ Made to Stick ”, authors Chip and Dan Heath explain we remember things that are simple, unexpected, and emotional. Animal cartoons about project management do all three.

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Peter Winick

AUGUST 4, 2023

An interview with Tim Creasey on using thought leadership to spread their methods for change management. To discuss how thought leadership can be beneficial in change management I’ve invited The Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci, Tim Creasey to join me. On a scale of 0 to 5, how well could you define change management?

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Mike Griffiths

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

  Using mind-maps, cartoons, and short summaries it covered the agile manifesto, the declaration of interdependence for agile project management, and each of the 7 Domains and 60 Tasks covered in the PMI-ACP exam. This book is ready now and readers of this blog can get special pre-release pricing of $4.99

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Alison Green

MARCH 5, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I was hired to be a project manager and am now effectively an administrative assistant. The job I interviewed for was listed as a project manager at a very large company. A reader writes: I am on the receiving end of a bait and switch job offer.

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Mike Griffiths

JANUARY 26, 2023

I'm excited to announce that the new PM Illustrated Audio/Video Book is now available! Her narration is excellent, and she brings the PM Illustrated book content to life. Project management is a dynamic, vibrant career, so don't study for the PMP exam with dry, boring content.

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Walk Me

MAY 4, 2023

Why we all need Change Management Research Some people out there already know everything they want to know about change management. Change management research is extremely useful. Research helps you see how change management works. The internet is your friend if you want to know more about change management.

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Thought Leaders LLC

JUNE 19, 2024

Kim Wasson describes five factors to consider when diving into risk management. Today’s guest post is b y Kim Wasson, a principal at thought LEADERS where she teaches our course on Risk Management. You know that managing risk is important. Every business venture carries risk.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 14, 2022

Effective time management skills are much more than the concept of improving productivity. To help you break free of striving to master time management skills that don’t deliver what they might promise, here’s a list. Myth #2: Making a to-do list is an effective time management technique. This is not necessarily so.

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Mike Griffiths

MARCH 2, 2022

This is post #2 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. One popular model is Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model, popularized in the book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. Check out Post #1 first, if you have not seen it already. So, stay tuned for more. 

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Mike Griffiths

MARCH 9, 2022

It also covers the understanding of how to manage the emotions of ourselves and others without denying or exaggerating them. Learning that we have a choice in how we respond to stimuli is an important step in managing our own emotions. He wrote about this stimulus-to-response gap in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. EQ Model 1.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

There are peaks and troughs in every workload, but when you’re struggling to keep all the balls in the air, how do you manage competing priorities? I’ve had many times in my career where each of my project sponsors believes their work is the priority. Why is it important to manage competing deadlines?

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Walk Me

MAY 4, 2023

Why we all need Change Management Research Some people out there already know everything they want to know about change management. Change management research is extremely useful. Research helps you see how change management works. The internet is your friend if you want to know more about change management.

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AIHR

JULY 25, 2022

Change management and change consulting 2. Risk management 3. Stakeholder management 5. Management of strategic deals and alliances 6. Project management 13. Change management and change consulting. How to develop change management skills. Contents The need for future HR skills 1.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 8, 2022

We all need to feel that our time is well spent at work and that we are progressing our projects in line with stakeholder expectations. So today, I’m sharing my ten tried and true time management secrets with you. Manage your attention. It’s not time that needs managing, it’s how you use it. Book the same desk.

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Alison Green

JULY 24, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: We are a semi-remote team that uses a project management system to keep our workflow organized and distribute assignments. One of my employees, Jane, feels it is necessary to look at everyone’s work on this system and comment on it.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again. Most importantly, practice what you preach.

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Mike Griffiths

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the book  The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety , author Timothy Clark outlines a model for understanding psychological safety. As the book title states, it progresses through four stages: Inclusion Safety  is the basic human need to belong and be accepted by a group. One approach is not necessarily better than the other.

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15Five

JULY 10, 2018

And that’s just books! Way to go, you’ve winnowed it down to only 20,000 books (or so). And while a search for “change management” produced only 10,000 titles, that subject is quickly playing catch-up. Looking for a performance management system that facilitates employee growth and development? How to Be a Good Manager.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Hi readers, I’m so, so excited that my upcoming book is dropping in one week, on December 7!! The Cold Start Problem , as the book is called, is about the secret that drives many of tech’s most successful products. I’ve been working on it for years, and am thrilled that it’ll finally be out.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence can help project managers do their jobs more easily and efficiently. Here we are in the 21 st century, and the demands on everyone are for higher productivity and managing multiple priorities well (or should I say ‘trying’ to manage multiple priorities). About the Author.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

JULY 27, 2022

To effectively lead a project to completion, I think we agree that many soft skills are needed to manage a project team and timelines successfully. Being an effective communicator is Job One for the Project Manager. If this is a problem you’re facing, try a project management solution like LiquidPlanner.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was asked a question I found odd the other day: “Can project managers work remotely?” The events of the last few years and the lockdowns during the worst of the pandemic have proven that it is indeed possible to deliver projects while based at home – or anywhere. In this article I’ll share six tips on how to do that.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In his groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence from 1995, Daniel Goleman explains that emotional intelligence is about twice as important as cognitive ability for positions at every level. Gone are the days when managers and leaders are expected to be generals giving orders to the troops solely based on their cognitive intelligence.

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