The distributed nature of projects in today's workplace deprives project managers of many of the traditional, authoritative management tools that were common not too long ago. In the past, staff working on a given project reported to and were accountable to the same organization as the project manager. The project staff all worked for the same department in the same company, were colocated with the project manager and with each other, and worked with each other on projects over a long period of time.
Executive Summary
Managing Projects Through Influence in a Distributed Work Environment
By Moshe Cohen
Posted January 31, 2007 | Leadership |
About The Author
Moshe Cohen is President of The Negotiating Table, a firm that provides mediation services to people in conflict as well as negotiation and conflict management training. Since founding the firm in 1995, Mr. Cohen has mediated hundreds of disputes in a variety of settings and in a multitude of topic areas, including workplace and employment disputes, discrimination complaints, torts, civil litigation, landlord-tenant evictions, divorce, family,… Read More
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