People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast
Welcome to the People and Projects Podcast, where we provide interviews and insights to help you lead people and deliver projects. Since 2009, this show is brought to you by speaker, author, and executive coach Andy Kaufman. If you're looking for insights on project management, leadership, and how AI influences both of those, you've come to the right place! And if you hold a project management certification, you can even earn free PDUs for listening!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 491
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
PPP 067 | The Single Biggest Factor for Increasing Productivity, Creativity, and Commitment: The Progress Principle
This is a season when giving gifts takes center stage for most of us. Many of us have the gift of some time off before a new year begins. And when that new year gets int…
PPP 066 | What You Need to Know About LinkedIn, with author Wayne Breitbarth
In this episode I'm going to share a conversation I had recently with Wayne Breitbarth, author of The Power Formula for Linkedin Success: Kick-start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search. Wayne is my …
PPP 065 | Leading Under Pressure, with Justin Menkes author of Better Under Pressure
In this episode, I talk with Justin Menkes, author of Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others. Let's learn together from Justin as we talk about leading …
PPP 064 | Find Your Focus and Master Distraction with Peter Bregman, author of 18 Minutes
Total Duration 27:37
One of my favorite writers and voices on the topic of productivity is Peter Bregman. Peter recently released his newest book entitled 18 Minutes: Find Your…
PPP 063 | How to Gain Credibility, Part 2 of an interview with leadership author and expert Jim Kouzes
Total Duration 20:58
In our last episode I started a conversation with Jim Kouzes about their newly revised book Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand I…
PPP 062 | How to Gain Credibility, Part 1 of an interview with leadership author and expert Jim Kouzes
Total Duration 21:06
I'm recording this episode on the road this week, delivering a keynote on leadership at a Project Management Institute Professional Development Day. Since I…
PPP 061.1 | Premium: Follow-up on the Michael Roberto interview on Filters
Total Duration 7:11
(NOTE: This Premium Episode is being included in our free podcast stream this week. It gives you a sense of the extra coaching that is available eac…
PPP 061 | Be a Better Problem Finder, with author Michael Roberto
Total Duration 22:23
Have you ever heard this quote?"There's an inverse relationship between your level in a company and your ability to see reality." We joke about that at time…
Follow-up on the Cathy Davidson Interview on Attention
Check out this quote from Daniel J. Boorstin. He said,"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge."
How often have we kidded ourselves that we knew somethin…
PPP 060 | How The Brain Science Of Attention Changes Everything, With Cathy Davidson (Part 2)
In our last episode, you heard the first portion of my discussion with Cathy N. Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn…
PPP 059 | How The Brain Science Of Attention Changes Everything, With Cathy Davidson (Part 1)
So let me guess.... While you're listening to this cast right now, I'm guessing you're also doing something else as well, right? Maybe driving a car or checking e-mail or working out. Or perhaps you'…
Follow-up on the John Baldoni Interview on Leading Up
Dee Hock is one of my management heroes. Dee founded VISA years ago and had many insights on how to be an effective leader. If you've sat through one of our leadership workshops, you might be famili…
PPP 058 | How To Lead Your Boss, With Author John Baldoni
One of the lessons that eventually becomes clear is that managing is not just managing down: leading those people who report to us. In fact, the higher I got in organizations, the more I found I need…
Follow-up on the Todd C. Williams Interview
There's nothing easy about rescuing a problem project. There's a reason why they're called problem projects! Todd's book is reasonably good at outlining a framework for how to approach the problem p…
PPP 057 | Rescuing The Problem Project, With Author Todd C. Williams, PMP
Lead projects long enough and eventually you'll have to deal with the problem project. Whether you were involved with the project from the beginning or inheriting problems from someone else, the real…
PPP 056 | Improving Your Success Through Little Bets, With Author Peter Sims
One of the great challenges of business is how to go from idea to delivery. It's easy to talk about ideas but turning those into a finished product requires much more than talk. It can be daunting to…
Taking Action on Your Crazy Ideas
Ever get a crazy idea and decide to act on it? Too often I just sit on the idea instead of taking action. In late May I had a crazy idea: to produce a Father's Day Rap with some friends.
Though Fathe…
Follow-up on the Kerry Patterson interview
Thank you for joining us for this special premium edition of The People and Projects Podcast.
Whether we're trying to change ourselves, our teams, or others around us, there's nothing particularly ea…
PPP 055 | Change Anything, With Best-Selling Author Kerry Patterson
So let me ask you a question: How strong is your willpower? When you want to make a change, how successful are you at not only making it but also sustaining it?
Whether at work or outside, whether pe…
PPP 054 | Become A Better Problem Solver, An Interview With Author And Management Thinker Roger L. Martin
I recorded this episode on the road this week, while in Las Vegas speaking at the Agile Development Practices and Better Software Conference. I greatly enjoy talking with people from many different c…