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Project Management 101: How to Manage Several Small Projects
These tips come from Tom Kendrick’s book, 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges.
Some projects are simply too small to justify formal project management procedures. Here’s how to track and control them when several are going on at the same time.
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Project Management 101: How to manage customer expectations
These tips come from Tom Kendrick’s book, 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges.
Managing customer expectations is complicated by two factors: first, whether the customer is known (e.g. a single customer), versus whether the customer is a “market”; and second, the actual users may not be the buyer. In all cases, though, the processes are the same: uncovering needs and wants; investigating feasibility; and clearly documenting the scope.
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Project Management 101: How to avoid too many meetings
These tips come from Tom Kendrick’s book, 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them: Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges.
Dealing effectively with the problem of “too many meetings” involves structuring them well and eliminating those meetings that are not necessary.
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Key Principles and Ideas for Negotiators
These tips are from Tom Beasor’s book, Great Negotiators: How the Most Successful Business Negotiators Think and Behave.
Never explain
As negotiators, we need to look confident and powerful (but not to the point of looking arrogant). We are more likely to reach a desired outcome if the other side must respect us, or sometimes even fears us.