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Some organizations don't seem to have effective leadership. But this can be an opportunity for the project manager to take some needed initiatives. Here is how we did it.
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November 4, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction. What does this have to do with project management? Everything!
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October 21, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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October 10, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Too many perfectly good methodologies and techniques have regressed over time because we didn’t make wise choices in trying to perfect them.
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September 7, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Over-managing the innovation process can undermine its effectiveness.
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August 29, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Many projects have an S shaped pattern that is our adoption success curve for our effort. Understanding our project adoption and productivity curves will help us ensure our projects are successful.
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August 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Sounds just like project management!
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August 18, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The CEO told all their employees to stop using other manufacturers' cell phones and only use the company's phones. It was indefensible, he said, that employees would be seen using, other phones on the job.
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August 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Stop doing something you suspect is unproductive and see if anyone notices says Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiner. I love it!
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August 13, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I face the dilemma: Either be patient and build consensus, or move ahead without the full team’s support. My sense is that it’s time for a change in approach -- time for more personal risk-taking and less conventional wisdom.
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August 3, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The FBI Sentinel project had been problem-plagued and had converted over to Agile. The Sentinel project in turn had sprung out of the FBI’s “Virtual Case File” system which was considered a failure. I'm always interested in lessons learned from projects that struggle to be successful.
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July 9, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
On his first day, Elop sent an e-mail to every employee asking what they thought he should change, what should be left alone,and what they feared he wouldn’t understand. What a great project management tool.
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June 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
A carefully selected set of practices that match an organization’s needs is better than using one methodology exclusively.
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June 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I kept wondering how we could be world leaders but be so bad at managing our efforts that made us leaders? Something wasn’t quite right in this dichotomy. Maybe, I thought, this is just the cost of being good at what we do -- by failing often.
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May 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
While we work under a set of requirements and objectives, how we go about finding solutions and bringing about the needed changes can make the difference between a hugely successful project and one that just barely achieves its promises.
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November 29, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
