How AI Will Transform Project Management – HBR
Imagine this situation: Sometime in the near future, the CEO [...]
8 03, 2023
24 02, 2023
What are Business Transformation Projects?
Are you looking for ways to improve your business? Are [...]
20 02, 2023
Project Sponsoring. What is a project sponsor?
A project sponsor is a critical stakeholder in a project [...]
16 02, 2023
Importance of innovation in project management
Innovation is critical to success in any field, and innovation [...]
9 02, 2023
What does a modern project manager do?
The project manager is a fundamental role in any organization [...]
9 02, 2023
Modern and Agile Project Management for construction
In a rapidly changing industry, construction companies must adopt modern [...]
26 01, 2023
Transformational leadership, how to carry it out?
Despite the challenges of any change, embracing a transformational leadership [...]
24 01, 2023
Disruptive innovation
Any company is always looking for new ways to innovate [...]
23 05, 2022
ANR #65: HBR Project Manage your Personal Brand & First MasterClass in Brazil!
By now, most professionals recognize the value of having a strong personal brand. After all, if you’re not associated with particular concepts, strengths, characteristics, or viewpoints, you’re probably invisible inside your organization.
23 05, 2022
ANR #64: Welcome Chief Project Officer & A New and Accessible Way of Being Mentored
With the rise of the Project Economy, one of the most emblematic roles, the Chief Operating Officer, is coming to an end. And it is being replaced by the role of the Chief Project Officer, who will be accountable for bringing a considerable portion of an organization's revenues, not deliverables and reports.
23 05, 2022
ANR #63: Ukraine: The Undesirable Power of Projects
I am a huge believer in the incredible power of projects for good and noble causes, but also conscious about their undesirable side. Unfortunately, most of our current leaders do not understand projects and ignore their overwhelming positive, and sometimes enormously negative, power.
8 12, 2021
ANR #62: Invitation HBR Webinar and some insights about the journey
I am happy to invite you to the first HBR webinar in Project Management - at least in the past 7 years - that will take place next Wednesday 8th Dec, from 1 pm to 2 pm UK time. Registration here. Feel free to share with other colleagues and hope to see you there!
8 12, 2021
ANR #61: Harvard Business Review – Spotlight Project Management and The Project Economy
I am very happy to share with you that the current issue of Harvard Business Review printed magazine has Project Management and my article, "The Project Economy Has Arrived" in the spotlight, including the editorial from their chief editor, Adi Ignatius.
16 10, 2021
ANR #60: LinkedIn Learning – Modern Project Management for Executives Sponsors and non-PMs
This summer we recorded the following two LinkedIn Learning courses, which apply the same principles as when I started teaching: simple, fun, and impactful: a) Project Management Reinvented for Non-Project Managers; b) How to Be an Effective Project Sponsor.
27 09, 2021
ANR #59: Executive Project Sponsors: addressing the weakest link in Projects
An inadequate and untrained sponsor in a project frequently leads to an unhappy team and almost inevitable project failure. Meet the executive sponsor to tell them the importance of the role and offer your assistance to coach them through the project.
16 07, 2021
ANR #58: Essential competencies post pandemic according to McKinsey: Project Management
As part of the research for my next book with Harvard Business Review - the HBR Project Management Handbook – and leveraging HBR vast influence and access to executives, we just launched a global survey on the latest trends and future of the project management profession.
20 06, 2021
ANR #57: HBR State of Project Management
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21 12, 2020
ANR #56: Five Disruptive Trends in Project Management for 2021 and Beyond
As part of the research for my next book with Harvard Business Review - the HBR Project Management Handbook – and leveraging HBR vast influence and access to executives, we just launched a global survey on the latest trends and future of the project management profession.
20 07, 2020
ANR #55: HBR survey on Project Management – Need Your Help
As part of the research for my next book with Harvard Business Review - the HBR Project Management Handbook – and leveraging HBR vast influence and access to executives, we just launched a global survey on the latest trends and future of the project management profession.
12 06, 2020
ANR #54: Reconciling Societies through Projects
Join us every Thursday to listen and network with incredible thinkers.
5 05, 2020
ANR #53: Dorie Clark, Mark Langley, Alex Osterwalder, Ben Laker…
Join us every Thursday to listen and network with incredible thinkers.
29 04, 2020
ANR #52: Strategy Implementation Professional certification in partnership with APMG
The Strategy Implementation Institute has the pleasure to announce a partnership agreement with APMG International, one of the largest and most respected professional accreditation organizations, to increase competencies and recognition of implementation specialists.
20 04, 2020
ANR #51: COVID19 Call to Action – But How to Make a Positive Impact?
Since the outburst of the global coronavirus crisis, thousands of initiatives have been launched to bring some kind of support to those that have been impacted most severely. I guess that many of us felt an urgent call to action.
21 02, 2020
ANR #50: HBR: “When is a Project a Project?” with Whitney Johnson | Corporate Rebels Interview
I firmly believe that it is time that we co-create the Project Manifesto. My proposal is composed of the 12 guiding principles that you can see below. Appreciate if you can share your thoughts, add or challenge them, and ultimately endorse the Manifesto.
3 10, 2019
ANR #49: Podcast: Whitney Johnson – The Project Revolution
Whitney Johnson is one of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (Thinkers50) and an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption, a framework codified in the critically-acclaimed book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work.
2 10, 2019
ANR #48: Udemy Online Course: Think Strategically and Make Your Ideas a Reality
Understand the essentials of decision making, strategic thinking and project implementation success.
2 10, 2019
ANR #47: The Project Revolution (LID)
Imagine a world in which most projects – personal, social, corporate, organizational and governmental – are successfully accomplished. That is the purpose and the reason for writing this book.
1 10, 2019
ANR #46: The Project Manifesto
I firmly believe that it is time that we co-create the Project Manifesto. My proposal is composed of the 12 guiding principles that you can see below. Appreciate if you can share your thoughts, add or challenge them, and ultimately endorse the Manifesto.
21 12, 2018
ANR #45: Roger Martin – World’s #1 Management Thinker
There is no better way to finish a year full of exciting news with Roger Martin. Roger has an extraordinary career, full of achievements and recognitions. In 2017 he was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50. He has published 25 articles in Harvard Business Review and 11 bestselling books!
7 09, 2018
ANR #44: With Alan Mulally – former CEO of Ford Motors and former CEO of Boeing
Most of us have experienced coaching in our professional lives. At one point, we want to get better, improve some our weaknesses. It is often a painful process, which requires moving out of our comfort zone. Sometimes the coaching process works, but often it doesn’t.
5 07, 2018
ANR #43: Re-Humanising Work Through Projects
Most of us have experienced coaching in our professional lives. At one point, we want to get better, improve some our weaknesses. It is often a painful process, which requires moving out of our comfort zone. Sometimes the coaching process works, but often it doesn’t.
13 06, 2018
ANR #42: Marshall Goldsmith – World’s #1 Executive Coach
Most of us have experienced coaching in our professional lives. At one point, we want to get better, improve some our weaknesses. It is often a painful process, which requires moving out of our comfort zone.
27 04, 2018
ANR #41: With Rita McGrath – The Future is about Projects
It was in 2013 when I first came across Rita McGrath's work. I still remember the impact that “The End of Competitive Advantage” had on my thinking. It was an eye-opener of the disruptions that would be soon coming and turn our world upside-down.
22 03, 2018
ANR #40: Interview with Richard Straub: keeping Peter Drucker’s legacy alive
Several years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Richard Straub over a long breakfast in Brussels. Richard is the founder of the non-profit Peter Drucker Society Europe after a 32-year career at IBM.
20 02, 2018
ANR #39: Are CEOs becoming the ultimate Project Leaders in the Gig Economy?
In the past 150 years, management has been focusing primarily at running and optimizing the business. Over this period, organizations have been structured in a very similar way, Hierarchically. The best way and model to maximize efficiencies and volumes, while reducing costs to the minimum. Projects were considered an addition to the business, hardly ever a priority.
21 12, 2017
ANR #38: The Ultimate Coaching Technique
You probably knew that the term ‘Coaching’ started in the later part of the 1880s and has been mostly associated with the sports profession. The concept progressively spread during the nineties and references to coaching were continuously mentioned in business journals.
23 11, 2017
ANR #37: Thinkers50 Awards – Thank You!
Last Monday I had the pleasure to participate in the Thinkers50 Gala in London, an event that is considered by the Financial Times the “Oscars” of Management and Leadership thinking. I always wondered what it would be participating at the Oscars and receiving one of the Awards. Well, it happened.
31 10, 2017
ANR #36: How to Prioritize Your Company’s Projects
Published in the Harvard Business Review
Every organization needs what I call a “hierarchy of purpose.” Without one, it is almost impossible to prioritize effectively.
31 10, 2017
ANR #35: Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better
Published in the Harvard Business Review
In the beginning companies sold products. And then they sold services. In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers.
22 10, 2017
ANR #34: Leader’s View: MEP Mrs. Iskra Mihaylova
I had the pleasure to interview MEP Mrs. Mihaylova, and one of the most influential women in the area of Regional Development in Europe.
