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Entries from July 2009

Priotitization – your urgent is not my urgent

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I was working with a client recently where people had real problems with prioritization. It made me think back to the old Time Management and Kepner Tregoe advice on how to prioritzse and to realize how outdated some of these assumption about prioritization had become in the matrix.
The assumption in the past was that if [...]

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Tags: Alignment · Matrix Management · Matrix skills · Working in a Matrix

New matrix project manager

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

The following comment was posted on this blog – I thought I would move it to a separate post as this is a common question.
“I would welcome your thoughts on my position; I am supposed to run a team of project managers who work across the company as and where required. We just took on [...]

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Tags: Matrix Management · Matrix Organization Structure · Matrix skills · Working in a Matrix