Nice guys...Cranky Managers...Weasels....Jerks

Here's an ecclectic and short posting mainly meant to get you to take advantage of what appears to be an interesting book and what I have come to find as a wildly entertaining and interesting podcast.

The book is Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office - Eight Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk by Edelman, Hiltabiddle and Manz, and it was the subject of Mr. Wayne Turmel's Cranky Middle Manager podcast. This podcast, although about general business stuff, is appropriate listening for project managers. And this episode is of particular interest because PMs - as managers - need to know how to get things done, if possible, without being a jerk.

I told you this would be short, so I will, without further blabbing, just send you there. Go there. Here's the link. Listen to this particular episode, but also bookmark and subscribe to the podcast. It will unweaselify (new word of the year, so far) your iPod or other MP3 player. Guaranteed.

Enjoy!

And as Wayne says, "Don't let the weasels get you down".

Survey SAYS!

I got to meet Terry Doerscher at the PMI Summit in Coconut Grove, Florida, at which he presented some preliminary results from the PMO Survey 2.o. That's not Terry on the right there - that's a guy I recognize from Hogan's Heroes or Family Feud - Richard Dawson. And he was famous for saying, "Survey Says?!" at that point in the show when the contestants' guess for some question was matched with the response of a survey to see if they aligned. If you're an international reader or a US reader who has lived inside a tree stump for the past 20 years, you can learn about this show here.

Terry has a really nice blog also, called the Enterprise Navigator. Visit that right here.

Back to the survey.

• What do PMOs do?
• What industries are they in?
• How old are they?
  
• Where do they fit in the organization?
• What size are they?
  
• Are they growing?
• What kind of success are they having?
• What celebrities are they dating?

Almost all of these questions can be answered if you look at the survey results.

The full version of the presentation is now available in presentation format.

If you're involved in your company's Project/Program Management office, you may find this interesting. If not, just watch an old episode of Family Feud.

Click here to register for the survey presentation.






Here's the detailed full link:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=130306&sessionid=1&key=B56DB34EEDE4C55688E616BF392795B8&sourcepage=register

Enjoy!