Don’t Let Someone Else Do Your Thinking For You
Thank you, but I’ll make my own decisions.
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How To Avoid Building A Billion Dollar Web Site
If we had stuck to the government’s way of doing business we would not have been successful.
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Lessons Learned From Little Caesars – Small Changes Make A Difference
OMG, that's boring. Wouldn’t we rather be in a group and just argue over what would be the better way to improve?
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Lessons We’ll Learn From The Failed Oregon Healthcare Website
The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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Our Desire To Help Often Gets In The Way Of Getting Things Done
He was just sure that if we asked more questions and understood each and every defect we would eliminate the backlog of defects. It never happened.
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Forgetting The Past
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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It Is A Great Idea But Is It Useful Now?
Ideas can become great ideas when they are applied at the right time and at the right place.
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Are You Really Sure You Need More?
The problem was that organizations seemed to assume that the default solution was always to try to create new full-time positions to solve problems.
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Project Management Lessons From Keith Richards
Mr. Richards spent thousands of hours studying all the great blues artists and rock virtuosos and integrated this knowledge into his musical compositions.
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Project Managing By Throwing Away The Book
We've been successful at throwing away the book, but in general the book has too many good ideas we need to retain and use.
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Simple Often Works Better Than Massive
“A simple tool,” he says, “can be much more empowering than some massive effort.”
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How Not To Be Taken for Granted
If you deliver the goods consistently but too quietly, you may find yourself and your organization taken for granted.
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The Straight A Student And Project Success
Some “A” students might be more successful if they didn’t work so hard to get all As.
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Can’t Get Support For Your Project? It Might Be About You
She was describing what I had experience all my life. Yet, I’m a caucasian male. You know, the alleged privileged class that the world gives everything to.
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Its Not The Money, Its What You Know
That turned out to be wrong as the panel’s lone skeptic delights in pointing out. “Look at all the money the Yankees have been spending without much success,”
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