From the monthly archives:

October 2011

Giveaway winners and review: Employees First, Customers Second

October 31, 2011

And the winners are… Lee Choon-Heng from Malaysia and Kevin McDaniel from Kansas, United States. Congratulations, your copies of Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar are in the post. This is what they won: Employees First, Customers Second is an easy-to-read story of how Vineet Nayar turned around the fortunes of IT services firm [...]

Introducing…the Cleland PM Literature Award winners

October 28, 2011

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management celebrates project management literature and writing in all forms. You’ll find project management book reviews, interviews with authors (like this one, and this one) and project management writing is what my company does. So it was a great honour to be invited to join the winners of the PMI [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 25 October 2011

October 26, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers my final day at PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Taryn, Jeff, Satish, Cassandra, Melanie and Adrienne for taking part in this video, and thanks to PMI for waiving my Congress entrance fee to enable me to attend. You can see the videos [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 24 October 2011

October 25, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers Day 2 of PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Kashif (who is quoted talking about one of his projects here), Evelyn and Joe for taking part in this video. The animal quiz formed part of the keynote presentation by Stefan Swanepoel. You [...]

Video Diary: PMI Global Congress North America, 23 October 2011

October 24, 2011

This episode of my video diary from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, covers Day 1 of PMI’s Global Congress North America. Thanks to Brenda for taking part in this video. The speaker whose name she can’t remember is John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee, who spearheaded the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Disclosure: PMI [...]

Video Diary: PMI LIM, 22 October 2011

October 24, 2011

Thanks to Chris, Samad and Jennifer for contributing to this video about the final day of the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting and awards ceremony. You can watch what happened at my first day at the LIM here. Disclosure: PMI waived my entrance fee to the LIM – thanks, guys!

Video Diary: PMI LIM, 21 October 2011

October 23, 2011

This video shows what happened on my first day at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Typically, just when I’m talking about there not being any pedestrians, one walks by. I have also found out about why there are so many Christmas decorations already up: the convention centre is preparing for it’s [...]

In Memoriam: Eric Jenett, PMI Founder

October 23, 2011

Eric Jenett, founder member of PMI and PMI Fellow, died yesterday aged 88. Mr Jenett was the very first person to become a PMP. He received a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and then spent much of his career with Brown and Root in Houston, Texas. He was also a founding member [...]

Why you should assume positive intent

October 19, 2011

Students coming to study in London for the new university term will quickly realise that in the capital you generally do not assume positive intent. In fact, Not Assuming Positive Intent is the default. You assume that other commuters will fight you for the last tube seat. You assume that your pockets will get picked [...]

Giveaway: Employees First, Customers Second

October 17, 2011

I love getting parcels. The lovely people at Harvard Business Press have given me two copies of Vineet Nayar’s book, Employees First, Customers Second, to give away. The book talks about a transformation project that took Nayar’s company from struggling to being one of the fastest growing IT services companies in the world. I haven’t [...]

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