Speeches Articles

This coming Sunday, 12 December 2010, I will be interviewing Craig Price, author of the funny, soon-to-be-bestselling (he hopes), book, “Half a Glass: The Realist’s Guide”. Register for this special holiday-season web seminar at the alexsbrown.com web site.

Explored the area between project management and spirituality with the Project Management Institute New York City (PMI NYC) Chapter today.
Visuals available at Prezi.com

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Other people prefer to watch and listen. The alexsbrown.com podcast gives you access to the new material on this site in an audio and video format.
All of the recorded speeches are available this way, and most of the new articles are published simultaneously [...]

It is hard to get an independent consultant to be frank and forthcoming about their business. During this one-hour recording, you will get an insider’s view of what it is like to go from being an employee to an independent consultant. The audience had hard-hitting, personal questions, and they got full, open answers.

Introducing project management to an organization is hard work. By appealing to the strategists and the senior executives in your organization, it is possible to make project management grow and flourish.

Hear one of my first speeches to put together strategic planning and project management. Hear the story of how a real company was able to implement its strategy through projects, and the unexpected benefits the company gained.

This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI North America Congress on September 12, 2005. The entire 54-minute speech will play below, with slides synchronized to the audio, and it is also available as an audio or video podcast from this site.

Available as a four-contact hour, four PDU [...]

Learn how project charters successfully bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key to project management’s success at the company. The presentation will include templates and overviews of the processes established.
This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI New [...]

A friend of mine recently asked, “What equipment do you use to record your live speeches? If I wanted to do something similar for my own speeches, what would you recommend?” Learn how you can make better-than-CD-quality recordings of your own, whenever you want to.

“Strategic Project Management” was presented to a packed lecture hall on October 24, 2006 at the PMI North America Congress. The presentation was selected as one of the top presentations of the Congress, and an encore presentation was made the following day.
Many at the Congress were unable to get into the room and hear the [...]