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10 Ways Not to Blow an Interview as a Project Manager - Part II
Sometimes after the interview process is over and you get briefed about the project, you have that hollow feeling in the pit of your stomach and your mind starts asking questions: “Is this project to big for me? Do I really have the experience required?” Those questions are fine and even answering them in the negative is fine. But please do it before you have negotiated compensation and accepted the job.
10 Ways Not to Blow an Interview as a Project Manager – Part I
If you are looking for a job as a Project Manager or Interactive Producer at an agency, here are 10 things that will help you get the most out of your interview. In each instance they have been culled from specific interviews or would-be interviews I’ve held over the last few weeks.
Contribution vs. Consumption
“We define success as position, acquisition, and consumption and then wonder why well paid people don’t contribute and take responsibility.”
How Disillusioned Do You Want To Be?
As Stephen Covey put it so eloquently in Seven Habits, “The map is not the territory.” So, if the map isn’t the territory, the difference between the map (how we view the world) and the territory (reality – the way things really are) must be the illusion. And I think there is still a lot of gap left to be exposed.
3 Steps to Surviving and Thriving in the Coming Recession - Step III: Maintain Perspective
Things are never so good that they can’t get better – and never so bad that they can’t get worse. Whether this turns out to be a u-shaped, v-shaped, or “hockey-stick” recovery, it is going to be what it is going to be. Worrying about it isn’t necessarily going to help. What is going to help personally and economically is doing something about it.