PPP 522 Are You Removing the Wrong Friction?, with Maggie Sass and Ross Blankenship

People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast by Andy Kaufman, PMP, PMI-ACP

Sep 5, 202658:13Business

Summary In this episode, Andy sits down with Dr. Maggie Sass and Dr. Ross Blankenship, consulting psychologists and authors of Friction: How Tension, Emotion and Change Reveal Better Leaders . Project managers are traine...

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