Author: Brad Egeland

Project management is not easy. Don’t let anyone ever tell you it is…if they say it is, then they likely don’t really know too much about it. Managing teams and customers is never…ever…easy. And to make it even more mysterious, most people don’t know what you really do if you tell them you’re a project…

In case you haven’t heard that one before, “I’m big in Japan ” is a way of boosting yourself in some unverifiable fashion. Specifically, it means, “To say/pretend you are someone of stature somewhere else, meaningless and not verifiable where you currently are. ” Many are guilty, at times, of overestimating reach, ability, impact, etc.…