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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2012

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management returns on 2 January next year. Until then, I wish you all happy holidays, and a wonderful 2013.

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Get started with Social Business!

September 7, 2012

This is a guest post by  Matilda Jernevad, Market Analyst at Projectplace. Ever heard of Social Business? Well, if you haven’t it’s about time. Several analytics firms have stated that becoming a social organisation is vital to be competitive in the future. What then, is a social organisation? One definition is that a social organisation [...]

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4 ways to use blogs on your project

May 16, 2012

Communication is always a problem on large projects: making sure everyone on the outside has a similar view of what is going on and that everyone on the project team knows how their role affects the others. You already have meetings with detailed minutes, phone calls with each team member, maybe even a dedicated intranet [...]

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Happiness is a ticked list

May 9, 2012

This is a photo I took of a poster at Reading train station. It’s advertising a hardware store, but I thought it was relevant to project managers. I think “Happiness is a ticked list” is going to be my new motto!

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Happy Easter!

April 6, 2012

These photos were taken at Jean-Philippe Patisserie, a chocolatier and patisserie in the Bellagio hotel, Las Vegas. On the left you have the world’s largest chocolate fountain, comprising of 500 feet of stainless steel piping and 25 hand-made glass sculpture dishes that deliver 2 tons of chocolate in a continuous cascading display. Pretty impressive, but [...]

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Leaders and Followers

October 3, 2011

This is a guest post by Peter Parkes, author of NLP for Project Managers. I recently found myself walking away from a project and used an NLP technique to help identify the root cause of my decision.  At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. Understanding how we got [...]

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The glass ceiling and women’s participation in MBAs

June 1, 2011

Don’t you love infographics? Here’s one I found about women in business. It says that “we’ve come a long way” in the salary stakes: not far enough, it seems to me, seeing that this says we still only earn 80% of what men do. Click it to see it in larger format on the original [...]

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Bug warning

May 20, 2011

Two people have got in touch to say that they have received virus/bug warnings when they have been surfing around A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. I was concerned and contacted the company who hosts my site. They have scanned their servers, found a rogue file and cleaned it up. If you’ve received virus warnings [...]

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Giveaway winner: NLP for Project Managers

April 11, 2011

Last month’s newsletter giveaway winner was Fiona from Edinburgh. She wins a signed copy of NLP for Project Managers: Make Things Happen with Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Peter Parkes. Congratulations, Fiona! What? You missed out on the chance to enter the giveaway because you don’t subscribe to the newsletter? Sign up here.

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Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2010

It’s practically Christmas, and A Girl’s Guide to Project Management is winding down for the year with a nice glass of mulled wine and a slice of stollen cake. Thank you to everyone who has helped make blogging in 2010 so much fun. Thanks especially to the authors and publishers who have allowed me to [...]

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