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Last year at the Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Congress in Chicago, Illinois, I recorded about a dozen interviews. They have all been published over the past year and you may have heard some or all of them as part of my Project Management Podacst. What you may not know is what happened once each interview was complete. Well, I pressed the recording button one more time and asked each of my guests the following question:

What business management skills are essential for today’s project manager if they want to become more and more involved in strategic projects for their organizations?

Spoiler alert… the answer that I received most often was “flexibility.”

Now, I want to share all the answers…in one nice “mashup.” Here are my guests in the order you will hear them respond.

  • Andy Kaufmann
  • Betsy Stockdale
  • Laszlo Retfalvi
  • Justin Fraser
  • Jen Pfaff
  • Sarah Gallagher
  • Kim Wasson
  • Darryl Hahn
  • Jeff Kissinger
  • Niraj Kumar

Please click here to listen to the interview now…

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