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Jim Owens PMP's Articles in Leadership

  • Powerful Project Managers, their secrets revealed
    In project management, when we talk about “power” we mean the ability of the project manager to influence the behavior of team and other stakeholders. Knowing the different types of power in project management, and knowing how and when to use them, can be crucial to managing projects successfully.
  • Successful Team Motivation Part 1
    How do you motivate people to work harder or better? That's a question that is often asked. At one time it was thought that just paying someone a higher salary, or conversely threatening them with dismissal, would motivate them. While these approaches had some success, they are very self-limiting. H
  • Leadership for Project Managers
    In the first half of the 20th century there was a belief that Scientific Management was the new way forward. But as moral fell, psychologists began to investigate ways to motivate workers, eventually identifying the need for managers to be “leaders”. But what does this really mean?

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