Project Management Insights From The War On Dementia
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s do drugs and forget about diet and exercise. Who wants to avoid problems? They pay us big bucks to fix them!
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Is Your Management Creatively Incompetent Enough?
I first discovered creative incompetency when I was a young Air Force officer but it has served me well throughout my whole business career.
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Why Senior Management Attention Is Often Based Upon Fear
By not being afraid, by trusting people, you get the best work back.
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It Is Our Fault The Customer Keeps Asking For More
Let’s just do it 20% faster. If we could really improve 20% … well why can’t we improve another 20% on top of that? Let's do that! Go Team, Go!
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When A Successful Product Can Be A Bad Thing
It was a bit strange. Here we had a fairly successful product but I almost found myself wishing it had not been. What was wrong with me?
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You Can Tell The Good Guys Because They Pay Less Taxes
Are they really bad guys or are they just doing what we asked them to do? Can we tell the difference? If so, our projects will have a greater chance of success.
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Needing A Personal Commitment Is A Bad Sign
The manager told me his team would accomplish the task in six weeks. I told him that he needed more time. He was flabbergasted.
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How To Rid Yourself Of Those Inefficient Political Battles
And there can’t be politics. There is no room for it in a company. When you do that, things become pretty simple. - Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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Fixing Problems By Hunting For The Guilty — The Story Of The Bulb
If something goes wrong, just find that person and fix them! Keep finding and fixing problem people and the organization will perform flawlessly. Not!
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For Lasting Success Find A Higher Purpose
Money, promotions and recognition are fine motivators but it won’t last or it will be empty unless we contribute to more than just our own well being.
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This Is Fundamental To Your Success
Thirty years later, it was almost verbatim what jack Welch was still saying.
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Project Managers We Can Get Too Close to The Action And That’s Not Good
"The problem is I’m sitting up in the stands, I’m not down in the driver’s seat where I can do something." Is this really what we want as project managers?
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If Our Project Management Crisis Is Obvious To Everyone Then It Is Too Late To Fix It
Denial was no longer a managerial option. It was a bit scary, but at the end of the day we executed on the plan. We delivered on what we said we should do.
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How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results
Is our project management organization in a place where it makes decisions that leaves us wondering "what were we thinking?"
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Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious
It is often too easy to focus on the obvious stuff and not on what it is we really need to be doing.
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