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PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen
If you are responsible for helping strategy become reality, you probably know this tension: the executive team wants the portfolio moving faster, but you cannot move work you cannot see.
Hidden departmental initiatives compete for the same people. Decisions wait for the next meeting. The same specialists become the bottleneck on every “top priority.” Then everyone calls it a resource problem.
In this episode, I’m joined by Paul Thompson, Founder and CEO of Metagyre, to get practical about what PMO and transformation leaders can do differently. We dig into the execution system underneath the project plans and what changes when you start managing the flow of work like a business leader.
🔹 Why “ruthless transparency” matters when hidden work is consuming capacity
🔹 How smaller, controlled releases can reduce risk and create momentum
🔹 Why the best meetings ratify decisions instead of beginning the debate
🔹 How to find the constraint that is actually setting the pace of the portfolio
Press play to hear how to move strategy forward with the people, capacity, and complexity you already have.
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P.S. If you know your PMO needs more funding, authority, or resources, but you are struggling to make the case in a way your executives will understand, join me for my free training, How to Build a Business Case for a Strategy-Driven PMO. I’ll show you how to connect the PMO to the business problems your executives already care about and make the case for the support you need.
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Laura Barnard
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