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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How To Avoid Articulate Ignorance
Highly intelligent people often pontificate about things they know very little about. Tom Holler
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Stay In The Game
I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest.
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Deep Dive
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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It’s Not All Big Data
The funny thing is many problems aren’t big enough to use the fanciest big data solutions. Sure, companies like Google or Yahoo track all of our web browsing; they have data files measured in petabytes or yottabytes. But most companies have data sets that can...
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Don’t Set A Deadline
Set a daily habit or regular practice.
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How To Make Pseudo-controversial Changes
Using real data from good sources helps to anchor our decision making and often, but not always, helps to settle down those emotionally driven opinions.
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Puttting Management On Autopilot
“Tesla is consistently introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance,” the company said in a July 14 response. “We will continue to develop, validate, and release those enhancements...
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What To Do When Unusually Sophisticated Problems Are Encountered
You wouldn’t believe how sophisticated hacking has become in the past few years. It has, in fact, gotten so mind-blowingly complex and erudite that this word, sophisticated, is now the only one human beings can really use to describe any single act of computer-security violation....
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Lessons Learned From South Africa’s Infrastructure Initiatives
The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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Productivity Lessons Learned From The 113th US Congress
Activity was what was important, it seemed, not productivity nor effectiveness. We can always tell the COO, CQO and CEO what a great focus we had on quality!
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We’ve Known The Basics For Years But Still Need To Apply Them
We need to be reminded more instead of being being taught more.
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Happy Talk Is Not An Effective Management Approach
More lessons learned and blame shared from the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange failure.
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Our Desire To Help Often Gets In The Way Of Getting Things Done
He was just sure that if we asked more questions and understood each and every defect we would eliminate the backlog of defects. It never happened.
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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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