by Donna Fitzgerald | August 31, 2011 | Comments Off
“Appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.” MACHIAVELLI I found this quote from Machiavelli in something I was reading this morning. I generally like [...]
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Category: PMO Program Management Project Management Tags: Difficult People, Leadership, Lessons Learned, Politics
by Donna Fitzgerald | September 21, 2009 | Comments Off
I promised that I’d pass along some thoughts about the PPM Summit so here goes: 1) We had a terrifically engaged audience. I’ve been speaking at one conference or another for just a few weeks shy of 13 years and hands down I felt that the attendees where there because they really cared about running [...]
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Category: PMO PPM Summit Program Management Tags: Leadership, PMO, Politics, PPM Summit, Program Management, Servant Leadership
by Donna Fitzgerald | April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’m not sure why I woke up this morning thinking about lessons I learned on an old project. I have a tendency to reflect back on projects that didn’t go like clock work, and since people only hired me for difficult projects, I have a vast mental store of examples I can reflect on. This [...]
Category: PMO Tags: Politics, Project Management, Social capital
