20
Nov
Every project manager wants to be encouraged and inspired. But when we are talking about personal growth: motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. If you want to grow, be consistent. Discipline means being able to make efforts in a consistent way every day to achieve your objectives and remember that you can […]
18
Sep
I feel sorry for the project manager who does not believe in his or her project. Nothing great was ever achieved without passion. Yet over the years, I have detected a lack of passion in some European project managers at multinational companies. I strongly believe passion is contagious—leaders need to transmit positive energy. In 2000, […]
09
Sep
Many years ago, I was asked to examine the status of project management in Spain by the First Global Project Management Forum in New Orleans, La., USA. At that time, there was not a single PMI Chapter in Spain, although other project management associations, such as Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), Asociación Española […]
29
Aug
As project management practitioners, we deal with people on an almost daily basis. And as more and more projects go global, team members from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds are being asked to work together. Some years ago, I worked on a multinational program team. The U.S. program manager supervised a group of project managers […]
08
Aug
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in search of a western route to Asia. At the time, of course, it was widely believed the world was flat and that a ship sailing west would eventually fall off the edge of the Earth. Although the explorer didn’t find the route he sought, he did […]