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Has the Older Generations Created the Millennial Leadership Dilemma?

The Millennial workers have been cast with several adjectives: entitled, lazy, disrespectful, rude, blunt, job-hoppers, tech-savvy, intelligent. Some terms are positive, and some terms are negative. Articles state it is difficult to train millennials for leadership positions because either they think they already know what they need to know, or…

Leading the Four Follower Types – Sheep and Isolates- Part 4

In our previous article, Understanding the Four Follower Types – Part 2, we described the types of followers a leader is likely to encounter in any team. Leaders must adapt their leadership style to derive the best from each type. Leaders need to be more adept in their skills because…

Leading the Four Follower Types – Proactives and Die-hard Loyalists – Part 3

In our previous article, Understanding the Four Follower Types, we described the types of followers a leader is likely to encounter in any team. Leaders must adapt their leadership style to derive the best from each type. Leaders need to be more adept in these skills because different situations and…

Understanding the Four Follower Types – Part 2

In our first article, 5 Traits of Millennial Leadership – Part 1, we described the 5 trait Millennials look for in their leaders: Mutual Respect Appreciation for Accomplished Work Assigned Something of Significance Adaptability Trust This article is the second in a series of articles based on our research, analysis…

5 Traits of Millennial Leadership – Part 1

For the past several months, our team of researchers have dug through many articles, discussed what they have learned and explored their own desires concerning leadership as being Millennials. This article lists the five points we have learned so far. This article is the first in a series of articles…

Millennial Leadership Initiative – View Our Preliminary Findings Video

We presented our preliminary findings from our research, survey and study data analysis at Penn State University - Abington on April 25, 2018. View a video of the presentation here. This article is part of a series of articles based on our research, analysis and findings. The articles in the…

Why Formalize Project Management – RTMI Baby!

We need to ask the question, “WHY do we need project management?” Moree specifically, “Why do we need to formalize it?” We get the job done, don’t we? Nights, weekends, overtime, “the beatings will continue until the moral improves” as Blackbeard the pirate was fond of saying. We do what…

IT Cube – Six Perspectives to Project Requirements

Gathering requirements for a project is critically important to the overall project success. Without proper requirements, detailed so they are attainable, a project manager’s ability to achieve project completion or stakeholders’ satisfaction is greatly diminished. Basically, he is shooting in the dark hoping he’ll hit something akin to the thoughts…

Project Management and ITIL for UC: Recipe for Sanity

Recently, I spoke with my old partner of the Unified-View, Art Rosenberg, about the recent press release by Orange concerning UC Hosting services. In particular, they announced their support for ITIL (IT Infrastructure Libraries) practices in order to best support their customers. Since I last worked with Art in 2002…

When Solving A Problem, Get To The Root Cause, Don’t Redefine The Symptom

I recently read an article appearing in CIO Magazine titled “Common Project Management Metrics Doom IT Departments to Failure” where the subtitled mentioned a report by Forrester Research stated the metrics used to measure IT project success influences the perceptions of failure. It goes on to say that we need…

Project Professors Definitions

Expanded Project Management Glossary

Analytical or Critical Thinking – More Than a Statement

Analytical or Critical Thinking – More Than a Statement The intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.– Michael Scriven and Richard Paul (2003) Notice: Critical…

Creative Thinking: Unleashing The Other Side of You

Creative Thinking: Unleashing The Other Side of You In solving problems, many times we drive to the root cause trying to fix the underlining issue believing the situation will be resolved. As we have seen in other articles concerning thinking, this result is not always what we need. As we…

Systems Thinking: Understanding Consequences of Thought

Systems Thinking: Understanding Consequences of Thought We have all heard of Critical Thinking. While thinking critically, we analyze the current situation, whether it is a problem to be solved, a riddle to be unraveled, or a decision to be made or a project to be broken into smaller pieces –…

Strategic Thinking: Creating the Future from the Present

Strategic Thinking: Creating the Future from the Present Can we see the future? Can we predict the future? Those who think strategically come the closest to what we would call predicting the future. Strategic thinking takes the present and creates a future through vision, decision, planning and doing. Strategic thinkers…

Visionary Thinking: Alternative Futures

Visionary Thinking: Alternative Futures Visionary Thinking Components: Visionary thinking consists of the following components: Creativity (creative thinking), Futuristic, progressive ideas, Directional path(s) to the future state, and Tangible concepts others can grasp and accomplish. Check any book discussing leadership and one core competency always mentioned as needed by leaders is…

Thinking About Thinking: 9 Thinking Modalities

Thinking About Thinking: 9 Thinking Modalities Have you ever thought about thinking? Probably the most impactful statement said to me in my life was from a gentleman whose name I don’t remember.  He remarked, “You think the most important thing in life is faith. I think the most important thing…

Is it QA or QC? What’s the Difference?

Is it QA or QC? What’s the Difference? PMBOK® Guide Definition: Quality Assurance (QA): The process of auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure the appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used. Quality Control (QC): The process of monitoring and recording results of…

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure or Wild Bovine Secretion

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure or Wild Bovine Secretion PMBOK® Guide Definition: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. Work Package: The work defined at the lowest…

Understanding Earned Value Management: Part 5 – Earned Value in the Bigger Picture

Understanding Earned Value Management: Part 5 – Earned Value in the Bigger Picture PMBOK® Guide Definition: Earned Value Management (EVM): A methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): A hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be…

Understanding Earned Value Management: Part 4 – Forecasting Equations for a Project

Understanding Earned Value Management: Part 4 Forecasting Equations for a Project   PMBOK® Guide Definition: Earned Value Management (EVM): A methodology that combines scope, schedule, and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress. Estimate at Completion (EAC): The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of…