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Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team

Liquid Planner Leadership

I showed the sponsors that I was there to manage their projects successfully. I engaged the team, managed work according to our capacity, limited work to what we could reasonably deliver and earned the trust of leadership and the team. Brad is married, a father of 11, and living in sunny Las Vegas, NV.

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The Mad Hatter: How Many Hats Do Project Managers Have to Wear?

Liquid Planner Leadership

A customer will sense the weakness and either use that to take over control of the project or possibly request that the project manager be replaced. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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Better Teamwork Through Better Workplace Design

Harvard Business Review

A report (PDF) from Gensler Architecture found that only half of the US workforce feels that their environment empowers them to innovate, while another white paper (PDF) from office design specialist Steelcase found that 70% of workers today waste up to 15 minutes just looking for a space to meet and 24% waste up to half an hour.