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Has the Older Generations Created the Millennial Leadership Dilemma?
The Millennial workers have been cast with several adjectives: entitled, lazy, disrespectful, rude, blunt, job-hoppers, tech-savvy, intelligent. Some terms are positive, and some terms are negative. Articles state it is difficult to train millennials for leadership positions because either they think they already know what they need to know, or…
Leading the Four Follower Types – Sheep and Isolates- Part 4
In our previous article, Understanding the Four Follower Types – Part 2, we described the types of followers a leader is likely to encounter in any team. Leaders must adapt their leadership style to derive the best from each type. Leaders need to be more adept in their skills because…
Leading the Four Follower Types – Proactives and Die-hard Loyalists – Part 3
In our previous article, Understanding the Four Follower Types, we described the types of followers a leader is likely to encounter in any team. Leaders must adapt their leadership style to derive the best from each type. Leaders need to be more adept in these skills because different situations and…
Understanding the Four Follower Types – Part 2
In our first article, 5 Traits of Millennial Leadership – Part 1, we described the 5 trait Millennials look for in their leaders: Mutual Respect Appreciation for Accomplished Work Assigned Something of Significance Adaptability Trust This article is the second in a series of articles based on our research, analysis…
5 Traits of Millennial Leadership – Part 1
For the past several months, our team of researchers have dug through many articles, discussed what they have learned and explored their own desires concerning leadership as being Millennials. This article lists the five points we have learned so far. This article is the first in a series of articles…
Millennial Leadership Initiative – View Our Preliminary Findings Video
We presented our preliminary findings from our research, survey and study data analysis at Penn State University - Abington on April 25, 2018. View a video of the presentation here. This article is part of a series of articles based on our research, analysis and findings. The articles in the…
Why Formalize Project Management – RTMI Baby!
We need to ask the question, “WHY do we need project management?” Moree specifically, “Why do we need to formalize it?” We get the job done, don’t we? Nights, weekends, overtime, “the beatings will continue until the moral improves” as Blackbeard the pirate was fond of saying. We do what…
IT Cube – Six Perspectives to Project Requirements
Gathering requirements for a project is critically important to the overall project success. Without proper requirements, detailed so they are attainable, a project manager’s ability to achieve project completion or stakeholders’ satisfaction is greatly diminished. Basically, he is shooting in the dark hoping he’ll hit something akin to the thoughts…
Project Management and ITIL for UC: Recipe for Sanity
Recently, I spoke with my old partner of the Unified-View, Art Rosenberg, about the recent press release by Orange concerning UC Hosting services. In particular, they announced their support for ITIL (IT Infrastructure Libraries) practices in order to best support their customers. Since I last worked with Art in 2002…
When Solving A Problem, Get To The Root Cause, Don’t Redefine The Symptom
I recently read an article appearing in CIO Magazine titled “Common Project Management Metrics Doom IT Departments to Failure” where the subtitled mentioned a report by Forrester Research stated the metrics used to measure IT project success influences the perceptions of failure. It goes on to say that we need…