by lewsauder | Aug 20, 2014 | Leadership
Office coffee politics Once early in my career I worked on a project in which I attended weekly client meetings where we reported our status to one of the executives. This particular executive had an agenda for the meeting each week. He would list the projects from...
by lewsauder | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership
Every once in a while – maybe even more often than that – you experience a renegade team member who wants to do things his way rather than what you’ve tried to set as the norm. When this happens, the project manager has to decide whether to act and what to do if...
by lewsauder | Jul 23, 2014 | Leadership
When the role of project manager is brought up in every day conversation, many people think of the task-master, always trying to get status from the team member, reminding him of just how late he is on his task. One can almost picture the PM standing there pointing to...
by lewsauder | Jul 16, 2014 | Leadership
Imagine that you are planning a vacation from Chicago to visit a friend in Los Angeles. As part of that trip you decide that driving and seeing the countryside will be a great way to enjoy the trip. A little south of Chicago, you get on Interstate-80 and start heading...
by lewsauder | Jul 9, 2014 | Leadership
Do you like the toilet paper to roll up from the bottom? Or do you prefer that roll down from the top? Chances are that you have a preference. I deliberately ignore the direction of the role when I replace it (yes, I do replace it). By doing this, it rolls from the...
by lewsauder | May 14, 2014 | Leadership
When I was a kid, I would watch my mother bake. She meticulously measured the cups and tablespoons of ingredients to ensure they were precise. The resulting products were unsurprisingly consistent. When it tried baking and cooking as an adult, I followed the same...
