Post 1: Introduction — Your Starting Point Doesn’t Define Your Finish Line I grew up in a poor, single-parent household with my four siblings. My mother worked two jobs, sometimes three and I started working at eleven to help take care of the family. Those early lessons taught me discipline, resilience, and the belief that your starting point doesn’t define your finish line. Although these steps are easy to read, the work involved requires determination, focus and time. So, t

Empowering Project Teams: Leadership Practices That Drive Engagement and Results By Herman Thomas   Summary Empowering Project Teams: Leadership Practices That Drive Engagement and Results  is a practical, experience-based perspective on leadership within the context of PMI’s Talent Triangle. Emphasizing the critical role of power skills (formerly "leadership skills"), this article outlines six leadership practices that support project success by fostering engagement, trust,

How is it that we as Americans have allowed politicians of all stripes to convince us we are each other's enemies? We are so different. They have talked us into believing we have to be "a Red or Blue American." Hell, I don't even know what that means. Does anyone, really? At one point in the distance past, I'm sure at some point, there really was a difference between the two parties. But, today, they have both moved to the far corners of their parties. Well outside of main st