When Not To Be Persuaded
If employers don’t think their workers can manage the shift to defined-contribution retirement plans, why make it? Here, the companies were remarkably candid.
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Can We Be Flat Out Wrong Two Weeks Before Project Completion?
I thought I was getting the best information from the best experts, but clearly that didn’t go well. If I had a magic wand ....
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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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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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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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Extreme Project Management Lessons From The Stock Market
Everyone loves to talk about the extremes, but if we can't tell the difference between an extreme and what is normal, then we are missing real insight.
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Do 70% Of Your Change Efforts Fail?
Change is hard, but consistently successful changes are very doable. Here is how we did it.
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Can You Really Spot Over-generalizations?
It certainly sounds like the problem that needs to be solved, but is it really?
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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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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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Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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Project Managers Are We Managing Or Are We Theorizing?
It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?
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Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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The One Great But Often Overlooked Project Management Improvement Technique
I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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Two Steps to Getting Truly Useful Project Management Metrics
One of the hard steps in getting to truly useful project management metrics is to get to a point where the metric tells us something useful and we believe it.
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