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The Real Power of Your Network

August 21, 2011 by Mel Bost 2 Comments

Do you think that you can snap your fingers whenever you need some vital information? Do you think that your LinkedIn connections or your Facebook or Twitter friends will come running to your aid whenever you need help? If it was late at night, and you were sitting in front of your laptop, in a foreign country, several thousand miles from most of your network, with a useless … [Read more...] about The Real Power of Your Network

Project Lessons Learned: Where In The World Has Mel Bost Been?

August 19, 2011 by Mel Bost 1 Comment

Why is "Success" magazine so successful? Is it because the articles are so skillfully written that readers feel compelled to read the magazine cover to cover? Is it because the insights are so insightful that no reader can resist the articles? Is it because John C. Maxwell always seems to grace their pages with his deep insights into Leadership? No. It’s because everybody, … [Read more...] about Project Lessons Learned: Where In The World Has Mel Bost Been?

Is It Time for a PMO Renewal?

July 14, 2011 by Mel Bost 1 Comment

I have always thought that summer was a time for "renewal." After all, isn't that why there was no school in the summer, and why your parents sent you to those summer camp "enrichment" programs?  It was so you could relax and enjoy some subjects and activities that you were not exposed to during the remainder of the year.  And as you got older, perhaps you had a chance to … [Read more...] about Is It Time for a PMO Renewal?

We Had Everything to Gain……

May 7, 2011 by Mel Bost 6 Comments

"We had everything to gain by planning and working closely together to advance the development and maturity of our new IT Project Office, but it seemed that every time we would take a step together in the right direction, one of us would sideswipe the accomplishment by acting irrationally or in what seemed like an irrational manner." Those were the words of my former manager … [Read more...] about We Had Everything to Gain……

Is Your Project in 2-D or 3-D?

May 1, 2011 by Mel Bost 2 Comments

Last week on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Paul Reiser was a guest. You may remember Paul as the male lead in the sitcom "Mad About You" which starred Helen Hunt as his wife.  The madcap comedy of this twosome kept me in stitches for many evenings. Paul was appearing on "The Tonight Show" to promote his new sitcom "The Paul Reiser Show."  However, as luck often … [Read more...] about Is Your Project in 2-D or 3-D?

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Mel Bost is a project management consultant specializing in project closeout and lessons learned, as well as process improvement, best practices, and benchmarking. For the past several years, he has been teaching “Project Management for Research” to postgraduate students at Arizona State University, as well as developing new approaches to the research process. Read More

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