PMI news from the other side of the world: PMI's Project of the Year Award was given to the AY-102 Recovery Project in Hanford, Washington during the annual PMI Professional Awards Gala in Chicago, Illinois. The Project focused on removing the 211 litres of hazardous waste from Hanford's nuclear reservation.

You might be a great leader if you stopped shooting yourself in the foot.

5 self-defeating leadership behaviors:

• Asking too many questions about the past.
• Allowing narrow bands of competence to blind you to wide bands of incompetence. Being great with technology isn’t an excuse to be lousy with people. Being great with people isn’t justification for lousy execution.
• Working in isolation – getting lost in doing things.
• Holding grudges and clinging to past disappointments. Baggage always holds back.
• Giving up on others too quickly. Forgiveness enables growth and strengthens relationships.

In our experience working with manufacturers and distributors from small, family-owned businesses to medium-sized, private equity backed companies to global....

large, complex organizations, projects account for 80% of the improvement. There are projects to improve efficiencies, reduce inventory, grow sales, expand into new regions, consolidate operations and the list goes on. Thus, if we must rely on projects for business growth and profitability, should we think about our project managers as million-dollar project managers?