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If you want to learn to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX…you need to TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE BOX Jay Abraham is a marketing guru who is especially popular in small business and entrepreneurial circles. Jay has made many millions for his clients…and himself – by thinking OUTSIDE THE BOX.

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Many professionals are either “knowledge seeking” or “problem solving” – but, to their detriment, not both. You can create a one-two punch for professional effectiveness by combining “knowledge seeking” and “problem solving”. Let me show you what I mean by looking at some details of some popular bodies of knowledge today.

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"After July 8th, pay this amount…" Within that simple, familiar phrase lies a tactic that will help us improve our communication skills. Every week or so, I pull out the bills that are coming due, visit my bank account online, and make payments. As I was doing some bill payments a couple of weeks ago, [...]

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There is a simple and basic attitude that we, as leaders on our projects and programs, can adopt that will make all the difference in the world. That thing is the idea of engaging openly and creatively with our team members as opposed to either seeking constant agreement or taking an authoritarian stance.

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There is much discussion, and often confusion over the difference between Lean and Six Sigma. In general, here is the essence of the two approaches: Lean = Improved process flow and Six Sigma = Reduced process variation. This post provides discussion and links to various resources that take a look at this from different angles.

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Processes on Demand, by BOT International, is a robust suite of PMO tools – project management templates and software integrated together – to enable [tag-ice]structured project management. The toolset is focused on Project Management Office (PMO) functions to provide a structure for organizing projects enterprise wide.

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