Are You a Leader or a Laggard in Your Organization?

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Are You a Leader or a Laggard in Your Organization?
By Sheri Mackey
The truth is, you choose how you are perceived. We all experience lags that impact our careers and can result in very serious consequences to every one of us – this is nothing new. You are increasingly expected to do far more, with far […]

10 Practical Ways Sponsors Can Boost Their Project Success

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10 Practical Ways Sponsors Can Boost Their Project Success
By Harry Hall
I often ask project managers the reasons for project failure. One of the top responses is a lack of leadership and sustained engagement by the project sponsor. The sponsor paints a fuzzy picture of what they want, throws it over the fence to the project […]

Pinterest Expands Buyable Pins To More E-Commerce Platforms, Reaching Thousands Of Merchants

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pinterest-buyit Pinterest announced this morning it’s expanding the reach of its “Buyable Pins” – meaning those pins that allow you to make purchases directly on Pinterest – to several more e-commerce platforms, including Bigcommerce, Magento, and IBM Commerce. The company previously supported Buyable Pins with Shopify and Demandware, when the feature first launched earlier… Read More

Twitter Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Adam Bain Becomes COO, Dick Costolo Steps Down From Board

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7973901378_92b39180d9_b After four months of running under Jack Dorsey interim chief executive, today Twitter finally named him as its permanent leader. The man who helped co-found Twitter in 2006 is now its full-time CEO again. Dorsey is juggling the job with a couple of other roles. In addition to already being the social network’s chairman of the board, he is also the CEO of Square, an e-commerce startup that… Read More

This Is How Most Of The World Uses Twitter

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5455256536_7a0139a6ed_b Blah blah blah, Twitter has 316M users or whatever and they’re not growing. Can it grow? Will it grow? Yes, there are a lot of questions that Twitter has to start answering if it wants to get some sort of momentum going with consumers and rebuild trust with its investors. General awareness isn’t Twitter’s problem. Plenty of people who aren’t on Twitter, and may never be… Read More

A New App Called Soon Organizes Your Everyday Bucket List

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Soon x4 Your friend tells you about a great new TV show they’re watching on Netflix, or a new restaurant that you just have to try. If you’re like me, you tend to pop open the Notepad app on your phone and jot down this information for later…And then you promptly forget about it. A new mobile application called Soon is now offering a better way to help you keep track of all those… Read More

Fitbay’s Fashion Selfie Social Network Lands On Android

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Fitbay Fashion selfie social network Fitbay has launched on Android after garnering some 250,000 sign-ups for its web and iOS apps since launch a year ago. The Danish startup set out with the aim of building another personalized, fashion-discovery shop — along the lines of Wanelo and Lyst — but the twist was a focus on matching users with so-called body doubles (aka other users of… Read More

How Transparent Are You?

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How Transparent Are You?
By Kiron D. Bondale
PMI’s Code of Ethics clearly illustrates the value placed on transparency in the project management profession – both the Honest and Fairness sections of the Code contain standards which echo the importance of this attribute. This includes transparency in decision-making as well as being truthful, accurate and timely in […]