PPP 204 | How to Build an A Team, with author Whitney Johnson
How To Build an 'A' Team A continual challenge for those of us who lead teams and projects is this: how can we help our team perform at their best? Project demands are only growing and the only way to...
6 Jul 201844min
PPP 203 | (Video) What I Learned This Week (You'll Never Experience Meetings the Same Once You Know About It)
What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode, I share some thoughts about pluralistic ignorance--a c...
10 Jun 20186min
PPP 202 | How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, with author Morten Hansen
Work Smarter, Not Harder? Organizations are constantly trying to find ways to do more with less. How often have you heard someone say that we need to work smarter, not harder? It's a cliché that U.C. ...
29 Mai 201848min
PPP 201 | (Video) What I Learned From a Podcast Listener This Week About Coffee Every Friday (and Strengths, from Marcus Buckingham)
What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. I recorded this before hopping on a red eye back to Chicago after a gre...
21 Apr 20186min
PPP 200 | Why Too Many Project Managers Are Dying for a Paycheck--And What You Can Do About It, with Jeffrey Pfeffer
Sustainable Pace There are so many ideas in agile project management that I appreciate, and one of my favorites is the principle of sustainable pace. The idea of sustainable pace is that whatever effo...
17 Apr 201846min
PPP 199 | (Video) What I Learned This Week About Convenience
What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. As we celebrate episode 199, I talk about some lessons based on a New Y...
12 Apr 201811min
PPP 198 | How to Grow Leaders, from Chief Weed Puller (and author) Jeff McManus
Leadership Lessons I'll bet you recently walked by a beautifully landscaped area—maybe it was someone's home, or on a college or corporate campus. You walked by that beautiful area and perhaps you tol...
3 Apr 201832min
PPP 197 | The Perfect Time for Meetings, Taking the Certification Exam, and Just About Everything Else, with author Daniel Pink
'When To' Instead of Just 'How To' We are faced with all kinds of decisions that require us to figure out what to do. The world is filled with books that tell us How to do things, but here's a thought...
20 Mar 201839min
