Storytelling is not just reserved for bedtime rituals, it’s one of the most powerful leadership tools. Leaders can utilize storytelling to increase their employees’ motivation and inspire them to achieve greater things. 

Leadership is about more than just technical skills and subject matter expertise. Not everybody is a natural-born leader, but everybody has the potential to be a great leader. 

You’ve probably heard of top-down and bottom-up in context of business management. Project management has taken these management approaches and adapted it towards project planning. 

It’s important to have a diverse project team with different skill sets. This also means that project managers have to deal with different types of workers who have different working styles.

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As new businesses are emerging at an ever increasing pace, organizations are under more pressure than ever to deliver successful projects.

It is a fact that the earth’s natural resources are slowly depleting, and one of the biggest global concerns right now climate change and its dangers. How can project management become more “green”? 

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One of the biggest predicted project management trends 2016 was the Internet of Things (IoT). It is clear that sooner or later it will also affect project management. 

Businesses are under more pressure than ever to create new and better products and services faster. Everybody is talking about disruption and everybody wants to disrupt. 

Every project has various stakeholders who have an interest in its successful completion. However, it’s not easy to meet everyone’s requirements as each stakeholder has different interests. 

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a widely used project management process and technique to measure project performance. It is also an extremely important part of the PMP exam.