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What do you wish someone had told you early in your PM career?

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John Duncan Retired| Retired Lebanon, Tn, United States
What good advice did you receive early in your PM career?

Or what do you wish someone had told you, that you learned only later?

(I'm gathering ideas to use for mentoring someone...)

Thanks for any input! :-)
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Daire Guiney Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Apr 16, 2018 5:32 PM
Replying to Margaret Love
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I agree with all but here is my hard lesson learned. If someone is not performing well, do all you can to correct that quickly, but when all else fails, replace them. I wouldn't tolerate it if a printer refused to print but I often waited far too long to replace someone, hoping it would get better, which it never did and always impacted project success. Sounds hard, but if a person isn't a good fit for the job, everyone is better off if that's identified sooner rather than later.
True, when I was new person to project management I appreciate any and all the advice that other people in the field gave to me. The ability to take criticism and use it to form a constructive learning path for yourself is essential for a successful career in project management. Usually the people who do not want to change or are unable to change in order to adjust to their environment are usually the ones who have the most difficulty in a project management structure. After than its assessing the risk/reward of maintain a person in hope they their performance will improve. Being able to spot raw talent, potential and the associated scale of performance from the rest is a skill a project manager develops over time.
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Larry Miner Founder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory Systems Bath, Oh, United States
Learn to laugh.
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Alisa Shapiro Westwood, Ma, United States
Be inquisitive. Ask questions if you don’t understand. It’s better to ask a dumb question at the beginning than not deliver the desired outcome in the end.
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Dino Valentini Program Manager| Capricorn Society Perth, WA, Australia
Manage expectations - this is the key to success
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Emmanuel Reyes Hernandez Project Manager| ISF Tallahassee, Fl, United States
Begin communications with the end in mind, to avoid being sidetracked during interactions and wasting time trying to get back to the objective.
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Scott Theus Senior Project Manager and Agilist| BWX Technologies Euclid, Oh, United States
Not "project management" specific, but I wish this was available when I started my career:

https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_...ork?language=en
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farrukh awan Jeddah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
I think the power is to make good team which can not only work for project, they do have fighting spirit for project to finish.

So making Team and team work is very high.
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farrukh awan Jeddah, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
a example :

the teeth of the saw in different direction can not cut the tree fastly even the teeth are very sharp.
if the saw teeth are aligned it can cut the the tree fastly with less efforts .

I hope, i m cleared to you guys.
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Jeffrey Spiller EAS Lead| AutomationDirect Ga, United States
That it was actually a career.
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Alexandre Bredikhin Megaprojects Risk Manager| USACE Pittsburgh, Pa, United States
There are two types of PMs: those who are all-encompassing together and those who are all-encompassing alone. The first are the truly ineffective PMs, the others are highly effective ones out of luck.
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