Sunday, March 14th marks the premier of the third season of Celebrity Apprentice on NBC at 8:00 PM CST. The only show on television, scripted or unscripted, about the discipline of project management, it is fascinating for those of us who toil in the trenches of the triple constraint. The celebrity quotient just makes it that much more addictive.
Because the show offers so many real-life lessons for project managers (despite the fact that the tasks are being carried out by decidedly surreal celebrity PMs), Cindy and I have decided to analyze each episode in our blog for the next several weeks. We will also be Twittering during the show each Sunday night. Join us on Twitter by searching for #celebrityPM if you’d like to chat with us about the drama as it unfolds! Then, each Wednesday, we’ll post a recap of the episode and blog about the lessons we can learn from the show. › Continue reading…
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Celebrity Apprentice,
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group dynamics,
lessons learned sessions,
project manager skills,
project team meetings,
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As project managers, we spend a lot of our work life engaged in some type of bargaining – for resources, timelines, budgets, and definitions of success. Then we go home and start all over again – who takes the trash out, where we spend the holidays, what constitutes an acceptable math grade! These agreements are usually made by compromise, and often result in no one really being satisfied with the outcome. › Continue reading…
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Negotiation,
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Do you understand the difference between consensus and compromise? The words sound alike but the distinction is important.
I recently attended a conflict resolution class lead by Judy Mares-Dixon, a well known mediator and designer of dispute resolution systems for organizations around the world. Our class spent a lot of time discussing compromise versus consensus. › Continue reading…
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compromise,
consensus,
group dynamics,
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negotiate,
project team meetings
