Please join me and Seth Greenwald who was my guest on my WITS, What It Takes to Succeed, YouTube channel. Originally recorded on Jan. 5, 2019.

The “Secrets of a Creative Warrior: A Practical Guide for Developing Your Creative Confidence” book will show you how to break the habits which hold you back from experiencing life to its fullest. Seth provides a variety of simple and fun yet powerful techniques which will guide you in developing your confidence to forge ahead on the path of the Creative Warrior. You’ll develop your creative confidence and achieve the success in life you desire.

Seth Greenwald is an author, a keynote speaker, a Distinguished Toastmaster, with Specialties in personal growth, project/time management and public speaking.

Seth B. Greenwald is the founder of the Creative Warrior Group. His creative career spans more than 25 years as an architectural designer creating award-winning stores for global retailers including Hudson News, Tumi Luggage and Speedo stores. He is also the founder and chief illustrator for the greeting card company, SBG Cards.

Seth’s daily workout includes managing design teams for large civil works projects built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Please join me and Dr. Dave Paul who was my guest on my WITS, What It Takes to Succeed, YouTube channel. Originally recorded on Sep 28, 2018.

Dr. Dave Paul who has over 30 years of experience in leadership, management and study of motivation. Dr. Paul taught in many universities. His doctorate in Organizational Development led him to survey and quantify the impact that feeling cared for had on an individual’s engagement at work, their delight at being at work, and whether they flourished in the work environment. His research developed a theory that people do work that matters for people who care. In this interview I hope that you will see through Dr. Paul’s almost 20 years of research and analysis which led to Dare to Care book that you will understand the difference between motivating people to do something versus creating an environment where people want to do something.

I don’t think I’ve ever received this much in my Masters in Management degree. I whole heartedly believe that every head of a company must give your book to their direct reports. Then those direct reports need to give your book to their direct reports. And so on until everyone in the company has it. On top of that everyone needs to practices it. As Steve Covey said it and you quoted him – it’s a “Win/Win” for everyone.

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Please join me and Terry Schmidt who was my guest on my WITS, What It Takes to Succeed, YouTube channel. Originally recorded on Sept. 28, 2017.

I had a pleasure to read Terry’s new revision of “Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams”, which is coming out on May 4, 2021. And I am thrilled to be part of it. So get the book for yourself, for your team, and for your boss.

In Terry Schmidt’s latest book “Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams” (Wiley). His methodology has been called a breakthrough approach and the book is recognized as one of the 8 best Project Management books on the market, along with noted authors Peter Drucker and Jim Collins. Terry is president of ManagementPro, a Seattle based consulting and training company. Terry is a recognized expert in Strategic Planning and Project Management who has helped over 25,000 people in industries of all types in 42 countries to solve business problems through his innovative Logical Framework Approach (LFA).

The Logical Framework captures key elements of a project in a 4×4 visual matrix that integrates key concepts from strategic thinking, project management, and the scientific method. Terry has identified four critical questions that populate the matrix and help teams to create their own strong strategic foundation. These questions are:

1. What are we trying to accomplish and why?

2. How will we measure success?

3. What other conditions must exist?

4. How do we get there?

The first question brings a clear understanding of the what and why of a project. The second and third questions clarify success measures and identify the risky assumptions that can later cause problems if not spotted early. The fourth questions helps to lay out the activities, budgets, and schedules. Most project approaches concentrate on the how without first adequately addressing the three other questions. Project managers of all skill levels can get outstanding results by using these four critical questions, the “LogFrame” matrix, and the embedded innovative concepts that help design better projects faster.

Terry is kind enough to offer additional free resources at https:bit.ly/Terry-WITS These include an article about the Logical Framework, plus a 12 minute “live” video filmed at a PMI conference, in which he guides a group developing a LogFrame project plan to save dogs from euthanasia. Both are useful and informative.

I hope you enjoy this deep dive conversation with Terry Schmidt on his Strategic Project Management Made Simple book.

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Please join me and Dr. Christopher Avery who was my first guest on my WITS, What It Takes to Succeed, YouTube channel. Originally recorded on Jul 22, 2017.

Dr. Avery is a renowned author and a speaker and the creator of “The Responsibility Process”. We had a great conversation on his new book. I hope you enjoy our conversation on this new platform.

His new book The Responsibility Process offers practices gleaned from twenty-five years of applied research on responsibility-taking and leadership. Christopher Avery has studied responsibility within organizations – what it is, what it isn’t, and how high performing individuals, teams, and business cultures leverage responsibility to create impact. The output of his research, his work, and his passion is the first how-to approach for taking and teaching personal responsibility, something that he has shared with audiences all around the world.

“The Responsibility Process”. Fortune magazine called Avery’s 1’st book, “Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting York Work Done When Sharing Responsibility”, the only book on teamwork you need to read. Dr. Avery hosts The Leadership Gift Program, a popular eLearning system for leaders and coaches worldwide who want to master responsibility.

Join in the leaders who are following The Responsibility Process such as: 3M, salesforce, Capital One, Charles Schwar, Microfost, GlaxoSmithCline, Whole Foods Market, Verizon, PayPal, IBM, GE, ebay, hp, Wells Fargo, Prudential, Rally Software Development and much more.

The Responsibility Process is one of the best leadership books I have read. Dr. Avery explains why being responsible is vastly different than taking responsibility. Being responsible is living up to cultural norms and expectations while taking responsibility is owning everything about your life. Dr. Avery makes a meaningful leadership distinction between accountability and responsibility. Christopher uses the roots of these two words to explain the difference. A true leader knows that it is all about making these distinctions in the minds of people.

The Responsibility Process is a powerful book that will help you to put yourself on the path to greater self-empowerment, increased choice, and freedom in living one’s life.

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Please join me in my first WITS, What It Takes to Succeed, Show podcast interview with Eric Verzuh on his The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management internationally bestseller book.

Eric has spent over 30 years bringing best practices and methodologies by refining his book in an MBA style to Project Managers.

Eric is president of The Versatile Company, which provides project management training and consulting to thousands of professionals each year. His clients include major government agencies, small and large companies, and nonprofit organizations in such diverse industries as aerospace, health care, information technology, and education.

I have read Eric’ previous and new The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management book and he has updated and expended with new material in the current version.

After reading Eric’s book I can tell you that there are a lot of information that I wish would have been taught to me when I was taking Masters in Management.

The book is full of wonderful material from: Project Management, to Portfolio management, Requirement Gathering, Quality Management, Change Management, Agile, Product Management, PMP type of Questions and Answers, real-world examples, and much more.

To learn more about or get in touch with Eric Verzuh please visit: https://www.versatilecompany.com/

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Welcome to WITS.

What It Takes to Succeed show.

I am your host Igor Zdorovyak.

Thank you for joining me on the launch of my podcast.

This is an introductory episode where I will describe a little about myself. And tell you what you can expect from this podcast.

I am so excited to be sharing the wealth of knowledge, best practices of information that has come to me with sweet, tears, hard work and perseverance so that you can be more productive.

By trade I am technical business transformation Project, Program, Portfolio Manager with technical architectural, business process improvement and product experience.

I have expertise in PMI, Scrum Agile, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, ITIL, CMMI, SAFe DevOps and other methodologies, techniques and practices.

For many years I’ve been writing about What It Takes to Succeed interviewing leaders and experts in their field. Now I am bringing it to the masses, as Tim Ferriss would say, on a new platform.

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