When Innovating, Go Slow?
The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.
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When To Rethink What We Think We Already Know
She didn’t know why or for what specific reason she was taking these pills. She hadn't asked.
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Yes I Know It Seems So Reasonable And Yes Everyone Does It
The COO said we had to guarantee that all future deliveries would be just as successful. I told her she couldn’t afford such a guarantee. She was not happy,
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Some Scary Things Are Worth Sharing
When [Ford’s Scott] Monty was planning what became the Summer of Taurus campaign … he wrote a rough outline of what he wanted and posted it to Yammer. Within a week, a person from an IT group that normally didn’t work with marketing was able...
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How To Know When To Make Things Tougher Or Easier
Discipline while developing new technology might be different than optimizing current production.
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History Shows Us How To Innovate Successfully
"How did you do that so fast?" I cheated back then, and these kinds of cheats (innovations) still work just fine today.
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Project Managers Get The Vision Right!
There is no one who knows what all needs to happen. Is the solution to let the decisions be made where they’re executed, and maybe communicated upwards?
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Project Managers – Now Is The Time!
What is good for the entrepreneur is equally good for the project manager in an established company.
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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue, and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
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Project Managers Are You Managing Or Are You Experimenting?
Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?
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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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Maybe We Should Ignore Our Boss
At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.
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Why We Need Project Management Islands of Excellence
The island of excellence might be a project that cuts across the organization or it might be just a team. We give them the room to do things a little different.
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If The Talk Is All Bad Then There Are Great Opportunities
"We’re human, we can’t write perfect software." I knew from just hearing this that we could fix their problems. How is that possible from just these words?
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Finding A Noble Purpose For That Project Motivates Success
The commercial world is all about making money. Yet successful companies often have a noble mission beyond just making money that helps drive their success.
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