Lew Sauder

Mr. Sauder is a PMP certified project manager who has worked most of his career as a consultant with top-tier and boutique consulting firms. He is the author of Consulting 101: 101 Tips for Success in Consulting, Project Management 101: 101 Tips for Success in Project Management and co-author of The Reluctant Mentor. Follow his blogs on consulting, project management and mentoring.


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5 Leadership Skills of Successful Project Managers
BY Lew Sauder
April 12 2022
If a survey were performed on a group of random business people asking what they think of when they hear the words "project manager," it is very likely that a majority of them would say things like, "task...
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Four Strategic Relationships for a Project Leader
BY Lew Sauder
March 4 2015
Project management has been described to be both an art and a science. The science part is easy. The typical project manager tracks numbers and statistics for a week and regurgitates the information to...
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February 2015
Strategic Execution: A Project Manager's Focus
BY Lew Sauder
Feb. 2 2015
Project management is often referred to in tactical terms. People have the tendency to see the day-to-day activities of tracking and reporting project status and recording project issues and risks. To...
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January 2015
How Organizational Behavior Can Contribute to Project Success
BY Lew Sauder
Jan. 12 2015
Much is written and discussed about project management approaches and methodologies. Trending topics on project management include approaches such as Six Sigma, Agile, PRINCE2 and many others. All of these...
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5 Ways to Get Users to Accept Change
BY Lew Sauder
Oct. 14 2014
\"The only thing that is constant is change.\" This saying has been used throughout the ages. However, as technology infiltrates the business world, change becomes more rapid. New innovations in hardware...
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    Navigating Uncertainty
    By John Zimmerer
    Economic pressures, regulatory shifts and evolving consumer expectations are converging to create a complex environment for health insurers. Amid this turbulence, many payers are hesitant to invest in
  • Getting Billing ‘Just Right’
    By Mitch Anderson
    How much do I owe?  How do I pay? Where’s my bill? Are any of your customers asking these questions? If so, it might be time to rethink your utility bills. 
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    From a Tick Box to Competitive Advantage
    By Liz Stephen and Mia Papanicolaou
    If there’s one thing we’ve learned after decades in customer communications, it’s this: notifications are never “just notifications.”
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    Why Every Document Is Now a Touchpoint
    By Gary Gregg
    When I think about how far customer communications have evolved, it’s clear that we’ve entered a new era, one where the regulated document is moving from being an artifact of a transaction
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    Turning Resistance into Resilience
    By Angele Taylor
    Resistance to change is a familiar challenge in any transformation initiative, but it becomes especially entrenched in document-heavy environments. These are the systems and workflows that have been b