Summary: Play Now: This episode is sponsored by The PM PrepCast for The PMP Exam: What makes you happy in your work? To some it’s a promotion, a big salary or being able to telecommute and work from home. Thomas Juli (http://motivate2b.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-thomas-juli/0/338/799) who has been on the podcast before talking about project leadership identified that there is a way to combine leadership, happiness and project success. He puts this under the heading of focus, strategy and alignment. In this interview, we are going to see why happiness is important in this equation, how it fuels success, how to get WOW projects, what the MVP is, and we get his tips on how all of us can apply this right away on our projects. Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Cornelius Fichtner: Hello and welcome to Episode # 281. This is the Project Management Podcast™ at www.pm-podcast.com and I'm Cornelius Fichtner. Before we get started, I once again have a quick favor to ask you. You know, do you like The Project Management Podcast™ and you like it well enough to take 2 minutes and write an iTunes review? If you do, then please go to www.pm-podcast.com/review or just open the iTunes store and tell others what you think. Thank you very much. Now back to today's topic which is: What makes you happy in your work? To some, it's a promotion maybe a big salary or being able to telecommute and work from home. Thomas Juli who has been on the Podcast before talking about project leadership identified that there is a way to combine leadership, happiness and project success. He puts this under the heading of Focus, Strategy and Alignment. In the interview just now, we are going to see why happiness is important in this equation, how it fuels success, how to get 'wow' projects, what the MVP is and we get his tips on how all of us can apply this right away on our projects and be happier. And now, put on your happy face and enjoy the interview. Podcast Interview Female voice: The Project Management Podcast’s feature Interview: Today with Thomas Juli, author, speaker and consultant. Cornelius Fichtner:Hallo, Thomas! [foreign language] Thomas Juli: Hallo, Cornelius. [foreign language] Cornelius Fichtner: So we want to talk about leadership, happiness and project success. Let's start at the very top. Why is happiness important in this equation? Thomas Juli: Well, that's a very good question. Yes, it's there for a reason. Not just like as a stumbling block but it kind of reflects my philosophy. I think there is some common sense in that which we have forgotten in project management and that is the human dimension in projects. When we talk about leadership and project success, we talk about some skills and some tools and our projects and so on, but we tend to forget essential element and that's us. Happiness stands for the human dimension. That's why happiness is very important. There's one thing I have to say it right at the beginning, it's not that if you want to be happy, you have first have to be successful. It is the other way around. So if you want to be successful, you need to know something about leadership and happiness, in that order. Cornelius Fichtner: Okay! It sounds a bit esoteric maybe to some people and they may already be hovering their thumb over the stop-play button here. Why should people keep listening to our discussion? What will they learn? What will they get out of the next 20 minutes or so? Thomas Juli: Yes, well, they can learn something about a new, maybe a new simple but very effective equation for project success which they can apply immediately in their project. Why can they apply it? Because it works on the spot. If they ever been happy in their life before and not in their job, then they should continue listening because they will learn something how they can be happy again I believe. Cornelius Fichtner: Okay! Let'
