Public Speaking is a Vital Part of Project Management

John Mce
For many of us the notion of speaking to a large crowd is very daunting and not something we would choose to do for fun, however public speaking is an essential skill for any project manager and therefore to lead a successful team it is a fear that must be conquered.  
It doesn’t matter whether [...]

Managing Negativity in the Workplace

By Craig Price
There are a lot of various programs and books out there that claim they can eliminate all negativity. And while they are all well intentioned, they cannot deliver on that promise because negativity is a natural, ingrained thought process. You can’t get rid of it. Not completely, anyway. Even if you are able [...]

People Issues in Project Management

- Herry Hendarto PMP
Project managers are often assigned as proposal managers and asked to plan and put an estimate to arrive at an acceptable proposal during the project proposal stage; and upon winning the project to manage the projects with little or no authority, dictated time frames and deliverables, and essentially told to just get the [...]

Lesson in Leadership

Having just completed the Indian epic, Mahabharata, I am pondering over a statement which a insignificant character in the story makes to the another. He says,
“The citizens of a country, whose king is weak, should not marry and beget children. A worhty family life, with culture and domestic happiness, is possible only under the [...]

Divine Vision – III

Earlier parts
Divine Vision I
Divine Vision II
Eventually, world was a safer place to live!!!
Sounds like a plot from Hollywood?
Yeah it is a plot, but not from Hollywood. In the most simplistic terms, it is one of the interpretations of “The Mahabharata“, a sacred Hindu scripture. Some believe its a mythological story, for some its an account [...]

Divine Vision – II

And he thought he created the future of his own choice…
The powerful thoughts have parallels and nature has her own ways.
When the King was preparing to strike back and his sons were getting ‘manufactured to do so’, somewhere, in distant part of the planet, some sages and saints, who were dedicated to the divine mission [...]

Divine Vision – I

He thought he created the future…
Prince of a flourishing kingdom, aspired to be the King, lost the throne to his younger brother because he was blind. But the destiny had some different plans, the younger of siblings met with premature death and the prince found himself on the throne. The sages, saints and scholars of [...]