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Comment by Alice Underwood on Monday

Leadership and Learning Blog: Agile or Fragile

Ed Frauenheim has written a tremendous blog on workforce.com that everyone who feels busy should read.

http://www.workforce.com/article/20120113/BLOGS05/120119976/when-ag...#

To be fair, he is actually summarizing work done by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, who wrote in the January issue of the McKinsey Quarterly. But he does a nice job, and here is what he (and they) are saying:

Organizational life, work, pace and culture have stumbled into a condition that they call Strategic Attention Deficit Disorder (yes, SADD). It is characterized by leaders careening from one priority to another, always jumping to the next thing. In the process, they demoralize the workforce and “kill meaning” at work.

To read the rest of the blog, please click here

 

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 26, 2012 at 10:57am

Leadership and Learning Blog: Type, being who you are, and the dinn...

One of the marks of great art is that it stands up to repeated exposures, and in fact becomes more meaningful with each encounter.

Psychological Type – the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – is like that. It is ironic that some people take the indicator in a compressed session, then forget much of what they learned, including their own Type.

To read the rest of the blog, please click here

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 24, 2012 at 10:06am

Project Managers take note! Susanne Madsen’s new book, The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Y... is now available from Management Concepts Press. Madsen’s insightful self-assessment will help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve and help you reach your project management and leadership goals. Be the first to order your copy.

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 20, 2012 at 10:16am

Management Concepts and AGA announce new AGA performance report at National Press Club. Download the performance report: “Using Performance Information to Drive Performance Improvement” here.

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 19, 2012 at 10:19am

PM World Today

Check out Jeff Furman’s recent article in PM World Today entitled “Top Ten Tips For Marketing a Book Using Social Media.” Furman is the author of the Project Management Answer Book, published by Management Concepts Press.

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 13, 2012 at 9:24am

ASAPM Project Management Symposium

Tim Jaques and John Weinstein, authors of Achieving Project Management Success in the Federal Government, will be signing books at the ASAPM Project Management Symposium on March 5 in Arlington, VA. Sign up now to get the early bird rate and stop by to meet and greet the authors and learn more about project management publications and resources from Management Concepts Press.

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 12, 2012 at 11:00am

Download Federal Project and Program Management Webinars

Increase your knowledge of federal project and program management topics. Download these webinars and earn 1 PDU for each one you watch!

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 11, 2012 at 9:31am

Preparing for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI®-ACP) Exam

Are you an Agile professional planning to earn your PMI-ACP certification? Let us help you prepare.

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 9, 2012 at 10:43am

AGA Federal Financial Systems Summit

We hope to see you at the AGA Federal Financial Systems Summit tomorrow in Washington, DC. If you’ll be there, please be sure to stop by our booth to say hello!

Comment by Alice Underwood on January 5, 2012 at 10:17am

Leading Cultural Transformation.

For cultural transformation to be successful, it is important to understand both the reasons for the change as well as the goals that need to be achieved. Please click here for a 5-step process to use when creating your “change story.”

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