Your clients can feel when PMs and AMs aren’t aligned
One of the clearest signs of a healthy agency has nothing to do with process, tools, or whether your team is using the latest
5 min readWriting by Brett Harned
The human side of work
Ideas, stories, and practical advice on project leadership, collaboration, and the messy, wonderful business of working with people.
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Of course they booed
I keep seeing videos from college commencements where a speaker mentions AI and the crowd boos. Honestly, good. The reaction didn’t strike me
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Every agency culture is shaped by its delivery culture, whether leadership realizes it or not
There’s a certain kind of agency leader who loves to talk about culture. They’ll proudly tell you that their agency is collaborative,
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Managing your attention is part of project management
I was talking with a mentee recently who is hovering right at that dangerous edge of “too many projects.” They’re not fully underwater
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Why agency projects become unprofitable (and what agencies keep getting wrong)
One of the first projects I inherited in a senior project management role taught me a lesson I’ve seen repeated in agencies for
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Quick update on PMFH2
I’m really excited to share that Project Management for Humans, Second Edition is officially fully edited and now out with technical reviewers. It&
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Project management is a people problem (and this book gets that)
I’ve known Stuart Taylor professionally for a while now—mostly through LinkedIn, a few Zoom calls, and some video collaborations—and I’ve
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Accidental project managers (and why this conversation matters more than we admit)
There’s a version of project management that gets marketed to people, and it’s honestly kind of adorable. It’s presented as this
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Why we keep creating accidental project managers
Most project managers did not choose the role. The role chose them.They became accidental project managers because the work needed structure. That story
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