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The Power of Acknowledgment > By Judith W Umlas Judith writes about the concept of acknowledging each other’s humanity, accomplishments, talents and wisdom on a continuous basis and how it can change the way we think, how we work and how we live our lives.
Judith W. Umlas is Senior Vice President, Learning Innovations, at International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), Director of Small Companies United for Global Disaster Relief, Inc. and Co-Publisher of global Web portal allPM.com. She has worked in television production, marketing and corporate business development, and her writing credits include articles in Working Woman magazine, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and she is the author of the book The Power of Acknowledgment.
The Zen Approach to Project Management > By George Pitagorsky George links the essential principles and techniques of managing projects to a “wisdom” approach for working with complex, people-based activities. Project management becomes a metaphor for how we can live our lives and, if we follow the wisdom traditions, the way we live our lives becomes a metaphor for how to manage projects.
George Pitagorsky (PMP) is Senior Advisor of Enterprise Solutions at IIL. He is a master facilitator and consultant combining project management, productivity and quality improvement and organizational change management. He is the author of The Zen Approach to Project Management: Managing Expectations and Performance from Your Center and IIL’s IT Project Management System. He authored IIL’s self paced PM BASICS™, and headed the team that created IIL’s Unified Project Management® Methodology (UPMM™). He co-authored the Conscious Living/Conscious Working course. George is a serious student, and practitioner of meditation for over 30 years. He is member of the teacher council and board of directors of the NY Insight Meditation Center.
Judith writes about the concept of acknowledging each other’s humanity, accomplishments, talents and wisdom on a continuous basis and how it can change the way we think, how we work and how we live our lives.
George links the essential principles and techniques of managing projects to a “wisdom” approach for working with complex, people-based activities. Project management becomes a metaphor for how we can live our lives and, if we follow the wisdom traditions, the way we live our lives becomes a metaphor for how to manage projects.
