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The Project Management Podcast

Cornelius Fichtner
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Become the project manager everyone wants on their team. Tune in to The Project Management Podcast™ and join Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM, as he interviews global PM experts to uncover what drives their project success. Subscribe at https://www.pm-podcast.com and get actionable advice you can apply today. Each episode is packed with hands-on tips for beginners and experts to help you integrate good practices and the latest insights to lead your projects more effectively. Copyright © 2005 - 2025 Cornelius Fichtner. All rights reserved.

  1. 13 FEB

    Episode 548: From Project Delivery to Value: How Project Managers Create Real Business Impact

    Play audio-only episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Episode Summary Project work dominates how organizations grow, transform, and compete, yet many projects still fail to create meaningful impact. This conversation examines why delivering plans, schedules, and outputs no longer defines success for project managers. As expectations shift toward value creation and strategic impact, the role of the project manager expands beyond execution into leadership, influence, and decision-making. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, a leading authority on project leadership and organizational transformation, explains how organizations have become project-driven and what that shift demands from those leading initiatives.

  2. Episode 547 Premium: How to Empower Project Teams

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    Episode 547 Premium: How to Empower Project Teams

    Leadership is not defined by rank, title, or position, but by how well leaders take care of their people. In this conversation, Cornelius Fichtner speaks with Sergeant Major Jill E. Johnson about leadership grounded in service, trust, and responsibility. Drawing from more than two decades of military experience, including deployments and senior enlisted leadership roles, Jill explains how effective leaders build commitment by focusing on people before personal advancement. She shares how early career experiences, unexpected recommendations, and continuous preparation shaped her leadership path, even when she did not initially plan to pursue a long-term military career. The discussion connects military leadership lessons directly to project management and organizational leadership. Jill describes her work in Civil Affairs, where rebuilding infrastructure required stakeholder alignment, cultural awareness, and constant communication, often without direct authority over those involved. These experiences highlight how buy-in, shared goals, and trust matter more than formal control. As leaders move up, she explains that leadership style should remain consistent while influence expands, with authenticity, vulnerability, and responsibility becoming even more important at senior levels. Career growth, mentorship, and self-awareness also play a central role in the conversation. Jill outlines how mentors often appear naturally through shared values and trust rather than formal arrangements, and why leaders must actively give back by supporting the next generation. She also reflects on knowing when to pursue the next role, when to pause, and how leaders measure success beyond wins or losses. The episode closes with practical leadership takeaways centered on caring for people, learning from failure, and creating environments where teams feel safe to grow and perform. In This Episode, You Will Learn: How servant leadership builds trust and long-term commitment within teams. Why effective leaders focus on people and relationships rather than authority. How mentorship and preparation shape sustainable leadership growth. What it means to move up responsibly without losing effectiveness. How leaders respond to failure and still earn lasting respect. Resources Mentioned Veteran Owned Business - A platform supporting veteran-owned companies and entrepreneurship. Warrior Rising - An organization that helps veterans transition into successful business ownership. Quotes from This Episode "Take care of your people, and they will take care of the mission." - Jill E. Johnson "Leadership does not make me better than anyone else, it gives me more responsibility." - Jill E. Johnson "Leadership opportunities show up every day when someone needs to step up and get things done." - Cornelius Fichtner Connect with Jill E. Johnson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-e-johnson-9a86a682/

    1 h 22 min

  3. 30 GEN

    Episode 547: How to Empower Project Teams (Premium Preview)

    Premium This is a preview of our premium episode. Full access is available only to premium subscribers. Click here and learn about the Premium Podcast to access this interview and transcript... Play audio-only preview episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Episode Summary Leadership is not defined by rank, title, or position, but by how well leaders take care of their people. In this conversation, Cornelius Fichtner speaks with Sergeant Major Jill E. Johnson about leadership grounded in service, trust, and responsibility. Drawing from more than two decades of military experience, including deployments and senior enlisted leadership roles, Jill explains how effective leaders build commitment by focusing on people before personal advancement. She shares how early career experiences, unexpected recommendations, and continuous preparation shaped her leadership path, even when she did not initially plan to pursue a long-term military career.

  4. 24 GEN

    Episode 546: The Real Reason Project Requirements Keep Changing

    Play audio-only episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Episode Summary Project requirements rarely change because teams lack discipline. More often, change starts long before a project manager ever joins the work. Early product decisions define priorities, assumptions, and constraints that quietly shape delivery outcomes. In this conversation, Cornelius Fichtner speaks with Lee Fischman about why project managers so often inherit projects that feel impossible and how product thinking influences what gets built, how success is defined, and how much flexibility exists when reality shifts. The discussion connects product management, project execution, and leadership behavior, showing how unclear intent, untested value assumptions, and early commitments lead to ongoing requirement changes later in delivery.

  5. 29/12/2025

    Episode 545: AI Speeds Up Risk, How Leaders Respond (Premium Preview)

    Premium This is a preview of our premium episode. Full access is available only to premium subscribers. Click here and learn about the Premium Podcast to access this interview and transcript... Play audio-only preview episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Episode Summary AI is changing how projects operate, but speed and automation also introduce new risks that are easier to miss and harder to challenge. This conversation examines how artificial intelligence accelerates existing project warning signs and creates confidence without evidence. Cornelius Fichtner welcomes Matthew Oleniuk, author of The Seven Red Flags of Failing Projects, to revisit four critical red flags through an AI lens. Together, they discuss how AI-driven reporting, task automation, and decision support can intensify output-focused thinking, hide weak outcomes, and create polished narratives that mask real project health. The discussion emphasizes that AI does not introduce entirely new problems but magnifies behaviors that already exist in project environments, especially overconfidence, automation bias, and reduced human challenge.

  6. Episode 545 Premium: AI Speeds Up Risk, How Leaders Respond

    29/12/2025 • SOLO ABBONATI

    Episode 545 Premium: AI Speeds Up Risk, How Leaders Respond

    AI is changing how projects operate, but speed and automation also introduce new risks that are easier to miss and harder to challenge. This conversation examines how artificial intelligence accelerates existing project warning signs and creates confidence without evidence. Cornelius Fichtner welcomes Matthew Oleniuk, author of The Seven Red Flags of Failing Projects, to revisit four critical red flags through an AI lens. Together, they discuss how AI-driven reporting, task automation, and decision support can intensify output-focused thinking, hide weak outcomes, and create polished narratives that mask real project health. The discussion emphasizes that AI does not introduce entirely new problems but magnifies behaviors that already exist in project environments, especially overconfidence, automation bias, and reduced human challenge. The conversation revisits output beating outcomes, project drift, performance theater, and stakeholder fade. AI makes each of these patterns move faster by generating more tasks, more options, and more polished dashboards than teams can realistically challenge. Oleniuk explains why AI struggles with human context, adoption, and behavioral signals, while project leaders risk outsourcing not just effort but thinking. Examples from public sector delivery highlight how manual data, governance expectations, and privacy constraints further increase vulnerability when AI-generated insights are accepted at face value. Rather than positioning AI as a fix, the discussion reinforces leadership discipline, stakeholder connection, and outcome clarity as the true controls. Project managers learn why treating AI like a team member, rather than an authority, helps preserve accountability and judgment. The episode closes with practical self-reflection exercises that help leaders decide where AI supports better work and where it quietly replaces critical thinking. In This Episode, You Will Learn: Why AI accelerates existing project red flags rather than eliminating them. How output-focused reporting becomes more convincing and more dangerous with AI. How project drift increases as AI continuously generates new options and directions. Why performance theater becomes harder to detect with polished AI dashboards. How stakeholder disengagement can grow when AI replaces human communication. Resources Mentioned The Seven Red Flags of Failing Projects – An ebook by Matthew Oleniuk outlining early warning signs in troubled projects. Quotes from This Episode "We are farming out not only the effort, but farming out the thinking, and that is where things get dangerous." – Matthew Oleniuk "You are not supposed to lead a project under the influence of AI." – Cornelius Fichtner "AI can make things look beautiful without moving the project any closer to completion." – Matthew Oleniuk Connect with Matthew Oleniuk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewoleniuk/

    40 min

  7. 19/12/2025

    Episode 544: The Four Pillars of Project Success

    Play audio-only episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Click above to play either the audio-only episode or video episode in a new window. Episode Summary Projects rarely fall apart because of tools or templates. They struggle because leaders lack clarity, adaptability, awareness, and strong communication habits. Author and coach Scott Barnard joins Cornelius Fichtner to share a practical leadership framework built on four pillars that help project managers guide their teams through turbulence. Drawing from more than three decades of recovering troubled initiatives, Scott explains how these pillars help teams anticipate disruption, reduce stress, and keep moving toward meaningful outcomes. His experience spans major global programs, complex software projects, and large organizational transformations, all of which reveal a consistent pattern: when leaders strengthen these four pillars, chaos loses its grip and teams deliver more confidently.

  8. 06/12/2025

    Episode 543: Catch Project Trouble Early and Protect Your Delivery

    Play audio-only episode | Play video episode | Play on YouTube | Play on Spotify Click above to play either the audio-only episode or video episode in a new window. Episode Summary Subtle problems often start long before a project shows obvious signs of distress. Leaders feel the pressure to deliver momentum, teams shift toward activity over outcomes, and stakeholders slowly fade as competing priorities pull them away. In this conversation, Matthew Oleniuk brings his experience from overseeing large public sector projects and highlights seven early indicators that signal when a project is heading toward trouble. He explains why these issues are easy to ignore, how they quietly compound over time, and why strong leadership vigilance matters more than any dashboard color. He also describes how patterns like output beating outcome, performance theater, and risk box ticking show up in real projects and why they are so harmful when left unchallenged.

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Become the project manager everyone wants on their team. Tune in to The Project Management Podcast™ and join Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, CSM, as he interviews global PM experts to uncover what drives their project success. Subscribe at https://www.pm-podcast.com and get actionable advice you can apply today. Each episode is packed with hands-on tips for beginners and experts to help you integrate good practices and the latest insights to lead your projects more effectively. Copyright © 2005 - 2025 Cornelius Fichtner. All rights reserved.

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  • Creatore
    Cornelius Fichtner
  • Anni di attività
    2005 - 2026
  • Puntate
    633
  • Classificazione
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  • Copyright
    © Copyright (c) 2005-2025 by Cornelius Fichtner. All Rights Reserved.
  • Sito web del podcast
    The Project Management Podcast
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