Posted by: @rjs84 According to Daniel Goleman, success can be broken down to be 70% interpersonal skills and 30% technical knowledge. The idea of this balance being in favor of interpersonal skills i...

In my experience, a great way to avoid repeated mistakes on company projects as a whole is strategic team building. When managers staff the different phases in projects, it's important that they pull ...

Communication is the key to being successful in the medical device industry. Of course, you also need to be technically competent, but interpersonal/communication/management skills with a technical ba...

Interpersonal skills are a necessary for a project manager to be effective and for them to move their career forward. Being extroverted or introverted doesn't matter as much as able to communicate and...

International/multicultural project teams can be difficult for a lot of reasons. In my experience, the hardest part is accountability. Various things already spoken go into this, like time zones, cult...

I think the most important step in resolving experimental failure is to make sure that the team doesn't feel like they will get blamed. Human nature is to protect yourself! Once the team understands t...

As someone who was just a project manager (and hated it), my advise would be "Don't feel like you are bugging people when you are following up." People have different priorities, and in my opinion it ...

While general wellness products claims are not always reviewed by the FDA (and can be risky), I still think the benefit outweighs the risk. The companies that advertise these products understand the l...

As someone that currently works in a Medical Device company, I think Global Regulation of Med Devices is something that will happen in this lifetime. The reason I say that is because of money! If Chi...

I currently work at Micro Stamping Corp in Somerset, NJ. We are primarily a project based organization. All project are run through the Steering Committee. One a week, all project managers/leaders rep...

To me, an ideal project team is dependent on the project. Some projects, i.e those strictly technical in nature, can be successfully accomplished with 4 PHD members who are super genesis and 1 project...