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Dispelling the green myths
As more people “wake up” to climate change we are seeing a lot of effort put towards starting to reduce our collective green-house gas emissions. Unfortunately however, there seems to be a lack of quantitative data being applied to many of these efforts, and consequently the media, individuals and business are often focusing on the wrong issues rather than putting the efforts towards combating the main contributors to our carbon footprint.

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“The Importance and Awesome Power of Project Management in Today’s Business Environment”
Why is project management important and what awesome power exists with project management in today’s business environment? The first reasons that come to my mind about why project management is important (based upon more than 35 years of my personal project management experience), are tighter budgets, diminishing resources, more and more time constraints, and competition to improve the ways we do business. The awesome power of project management makes it possible to focus on priorities, track and measure performance, overcome challenges and problems, become flexible enough to adapt to change and achieve higher performance and a higher probability of success in each project.
HOW TO PACK A PUNCH IN YOUR PRESENTATIONS.....
Everyone in management or sales needs to do presentations at some point in their career. Even worse, everyone in management and sales have had to endure boring, monotonous, uninteresting, 'death by PowerPoint' experiences too.. This article helps equip you with tools and strategies to be kind to your audience, not bore them, have fun and deliver a presentation that has punch and power.
Power 3.0: Kinder, Gentler, and Better
Choose your weapon: Power 1.0 = muscle and weapons Power 2.0 = money, market share, or brain power
Dont let your clients move the goal posts Protect your company
Large companies with purchasing power have been moving the goal posts and bullying their suppliers to accept new payment terms. Fightyourcorner advises suppliers to put in place good debt management systems to avoid problems in the future. Good debt management should protect companies affected by sudden changes in contract terms.
Do You Have the Power
Effective leaders need more than the authority that comes with a management position. It requires the power granted by those around you. Too often unknowing people confuse leadership with management and leadership development with management training. The success of your organization depends on your understanding of the distinction.
Toxic Leadership and Change Management - How to Spot it, Deal With it and Avoid it
Toxic leadership is all about the abuse of power and its destructiveness. In change management terms, having anyone in a leadership or a management position in your organisation who displays these characteristics is like a poison that needs to be identified and eradicated at the earliest opportunity. There are a number of defenses to toxic leadership...
Success and Fear
What you fear has no power until you give it yours. When we fear something we are handing our personal power over to that which we fear. When we’re afraid of circumstances, situations or loss, we’re really giving our power away to the circumstance, situation or the loss. So, whether we’re facing health issues, the bank manager, a hungry tiger or an uncertain tomorrow, we only become powerless when we surrender our power.

The Top 5 Lies about power...
Is power good or evil? Does power inevitably lead to corruption? If power is so bad, why can't we do a damn thing without it? Power is no more or less than your ability or capacity to act or perform effectively. You determine whether you'll apply your effectiveness for good or bad, for cultivation or destruction...to control others or to create authentic personal and professional success!

The “Not So Dirty” Five-letter Word: The Use of Power In Change Management
It turns out that power, when applied appropriately, is exactly what it takes to promote action and make transformation happen. But it needs to be the right type of power. In this article on change management, we review the types of power available to organizations, referred to as "Power Centers" and discuss how to best leverage them. Potential change agents tend to possess power, but some “power types” are better than others when it comes to selecting change agents.

Seven Essential Principles for Managing Power and Politics
There are seven essential principles for managing power and politics in organizations. They are based on the philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli, the classic theorist in the field. Not even skilled and relatively sophisticated people can succeed in management -- and be seen as leaders -- without internalizing these principles, although they may have minor short-term successes. In the long run, they will be undermined because they can't build and keep alliances, protect themselves from the grapevine or influence top management.
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