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From Hong Kong to Quebec, Cambodia to Memphis, project manager Saji Madapat has found career satisfaction and success through thinking big, reaching out and giving back. Here, he shares some hard-won lessons from the field, and explains why good project management will be indispensable for building a healthier global economic future.
Saji Madapat must find it hard to stay in one place. If he's not busy traveling to a Project Management Institute's Masters Class Alumni Reunion, he's in Cambodia or Hong Kong with the prestigious Global Institute For Tomorrow's Young Leaders program, which helps executives to develop cross-cultural leadership skills through hands-on experience.
And that was just this past May.
On the corporate side, Madapat has created a portfolio management office for the $5 billion transportation giant FedEx Freight, and served as the global business system, project portfolio and knowledge transfer specialist at specialty chemical manufacturer Buckman Laboratories International. He is also an active volunteer with PMI.
Madapat found some time in his busy schedule to chat with ProjectsAtWork.com about overcoming project challenges, finding the value in social networking, and how the FedEx project became a career-changing 'baptism by fire.'
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