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Juanita Woods, PMP, MBA
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Leadership and Management Professional
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Coaching Others to Succeed
“How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That’s how you win.” – Coach O. Andrew “Bum” Phillips, former NFL Coach When you think of coaching, what comes to mind? Some burly guy (or girl) standing on the sidelines yelling plays to the team? It seems [...]
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Don’t Ignore the Importance of Project Financials
Well, I am wrapping up an eight-week course on financial theories, and am using this as an excuse for my lack of blogging. But, my last assignment was just submitted, so I feel that I have a little breather to share with you my opinion on financial theories and how they relate to project management. [...]
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What Makes A Great Leader?
As long as there have been leaders, people have wondered what makes a great leader. From Plato’s “great man” to Machiavelli’s prince to modern charismatic and transformational leaders, defining the characteristics of a great leader has been difficult, at best (Clawson, 2006, p. 379). The characteristics of one great leader may not match the characteristics [...]
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On Leadership
After finishing up the first week (of about 150 weeks to come) in my doctoral program, I am realizing just what a big undertaking I have started. Balancing family, work and the doctoral program is going to take some planning and lots of organization. Several of my classmates have discussed the importance of balancing our [...]
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Plan for Success and Plan for Failure
Contrary to popular belief, implementation planning is not merely installing a system one day and letting end users at the new system the next. Rather, implementation planning starts as soon as the project starts and actual implementation activities begin well before the system is ready to deploy. Too often, managers overlook the need to plan [...]
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