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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Duh! Just Match Our Promises To Our Capability
Too many organizations just do it backwards.
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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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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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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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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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Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works
The Dilbert Comic strip is a great example of how to bring about change. Instead, it is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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Project Managers Follow The Crowd As Your Last Resort
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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Project Manager Are We Really Managing Both Risk And Change?
In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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Project Managers Beware of Oversimplifying Your Problems
"I’m always on the lookout for ideas concerning software estimation, even as I ponder my own eternal mantra: Estimates are always wrong." Not!
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Being A Manager Is Hard But Not For The Reasons I Expected
I got into management because that was where the problems were. This would be simple, I thought, get the management right and then we could get the job done right. Boy, was I delusional.
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How to get An “A” On Our Project Management
My job was to evaluate how well our government projects were doing. The projects were expected to be using the prescribed latests and greatest project management tools and development technologies to help ensure they were successful. Here is how we finally achieved an "A" in our project management.
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Project Managers Get The Communications Right!
Project management is often about getting people to do the things we need them to do. Here is how we got people to better follow policy by improving how we communicated and how we can apply this to managing projects.
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Hiding The Problem As A Project Management Tool
The CEO told all their employees to stop using other manufacturers' cell phones and only use the company's phones. It was indefensible, he said, that employees would be seen using, other phones on the job.
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Is It Really OK For Your Project To Fail?
Would you tell your project team that it is OK to not get the product working because real-life experience is that sometimes things don’t work out?
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