Four Project Management Hints That Work
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs
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Data Is A People Problem
I've found that "having the data" is about half the effort. The other half is not how to make it compelling. The data was always compelling in my experience because it generally showed that we were making poor decisions. That rarely went over well.
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Eliminating The Black Hole Of Complexity
The bug-laden software resulted in fix after fix, each fix reconciling some problems but introducing new ones. This all produced an enormous revenue source from the selling of Systems Engineer’s services.
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Being Too Simple Can Be A Good Thing
Yet Abt, on behalf of Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wis., has returns that beat Harvard ’s $37 billion endowment and most others. In the 10 years through the most recent college fiscal year, ended on June 30, 2017, the former beer company executive racked up...
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Change The Mindset And Cause A Revolution
Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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What Are The False Ideas That We Believe Today?
An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge.
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Avoiding A Bad Launch
The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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Successfully Doing What Nobody Supports
I was terrified to charge against conventional wisdom, and was often “gently” reminded of what might happen, with descriptions of crippling disability and advanced dependency.
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Dealing With Human Error
"The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not." Wait, what?
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Take the Time to Explain and to Understand
Take time to explain why you believe something — not just what you believe and why your opponent is wrong. So how did Bastian switch over from home birth advocate to home birth critic? It started with conversations with researchers in Sydney, who were compassionate...
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Ignore Conventional Wisdom and Do Your Own Research
The trick was always to look past common wisdom and corporate culture even when everyone was encouraging us to do it the same old way.
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Does Anybody Listen To You?
It takes three elements: the right people, the right timing, and the right way? Not so fast.
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Support Bottom-up Innovation It Is Happening With Or Without You
IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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Lessons Learned From Cancer Treatment Doctors
Hospitals keep us healthy right? The best place to be if one is not feeling well has got to be a hospital. Well as it happens, no.
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Make A Plan
“If you are failing to plan, you are planning to fail.” -- Tariq Siddique
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