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If You Worried More About Performing

April 11, 2013 4 Comments
If You Worried More About Performing

You wouldn’t have to worry about making excuses for failing to achieve what you said was your goal. You wouldn’t have to blame others for failures you could have avoided. You wouldn’t have to count on others shirking their responsibility in order to give you what you think you are entitled too even though your [...]

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Lead From Anywhere

October 17, 2012 2 Comments
Lead From Anywhere

Lead From Anywhere from Bret Simmons I have the honor of speaking today to the Project Management Community at Microsoft Licensing in Reno, Nevada. They are interested in helping their project managers better understand how to lead from anywhere. I’m going to attempt to explain why and how people can and should exhibit leadership behaviors [...]

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Above The Code

September 26, 2012 2 Comments
Above The Code

Conduct: a mode or standard of personal behavior especially as based on moral principles (Merriam Webster Online) Organizations establish codes of conduct to help their members understand the types of behaviors that both advance and obstruct the organization’s purposeful productivity. Any organization that does not develop, disseminate, support, and enforce a simple code of conduct [...]

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If You Don’t Have Something Nice To Say

May 22, 2012 21 Comments
If You Don’t Have Something Nice To Say

We’ve all heard the familiar saying “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Bullshit! Our ears are duly tickled, but the hidden agenda at the core of this counsel is positively poisonous. Don’t let anyone impel you to surrender your voice with his or her rhetoric of control. You [...]

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