ALWAYS Is Probably Not The Word We Want To Use
"I’ve ALWAYS found that the face-to-face relationship is far superior." Always?
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How To Get That Lucky Golden Touch
My wife said I was just lucky. Lucky? I’ve been doing this stuff for over 20 years!
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Can We Really Just Ignore The Small Stuff?
In the worst case I figured, I could always change them back to what they were. So I “fixed” them. Disaster?
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Pay More Attention To The People Who Talk About Their Mistakes
Analysts who are the most confident about their predictions have some of the worst track records, while those with the best are always questioning their beliefs.
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How To Make Our Management Blunder Proof
I had pulled the wrong data in updating my status. It looked like a huge mistake in my data and it put me into a cold sweat. I was doomed.
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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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How To Avoid Chaos In Our Discussions
When we have two people talking about the same thing in a different way, we have chaos pre-programmed.
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Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results — Except In Project Management
The group estimated it would take two years to get done. Yet 40% of comparable projects failed, and for the teams that did finish, it took seven years.
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Social Tools That Motivate Getting Things Done
You know that if you don’t show up, people are going to notice.
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Good Results Will Inevitably Degrade With Time Unless We Act To Prevent It
The effectiveness of techniques will fade in and fade out systematically, based upon no rational logic except that this is what happens with people using tools and methods.
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Minutes Matter And How To Avoid Screwing Up Our Productivity
If you just add five minutes per patient then you have just hit me with a 20 to 30 percent productivity loss!
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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 “Let’s try this” Is Not A Metrics Plan
Measure interruptions to people’s work so we know how much we interfere with their concentration? This will also interrupt the person we are trying to help!
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One Way Not To Undervalue Yourself
Getting free rein over our work schedules helps improve our productivity. Just don't give that improvement away for free.
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Four Steps To Not Wasting Our Great Opportunities
Scrum emerged as the winner among the agile methodologies. But in some cases, managers kept the developers out of the loop and the opportunity was wasted.
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