Project Management Insights From The War On Dementia
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Let’s do drugs and forget about diet and exercise. Who wants to avoid problems? They pay us big bucks to fix them!
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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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Project Management Is Primarily Team Building
Rarely does the project manager do any “real” work that adds value to the results of the project. The real work is in building the project team.
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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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Let Them Rant!
If they are angry then just let them rant and listen carefully as part of the solution is probably right in front of you.
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For Lasting Success Find A Higher Purpose
Money, promotions and recognition are fine motivators but it won’t last or it will be empty unless we contribute to more than just our own well being.
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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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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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On-Time Successful Projects? This Year We Can
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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Senior Manager It Is OK Not To Be An Expert Which Is Why You Have A Project Manager
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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Beware The Moneyball Myth In Project Management
I loved the book Moneyball. It highlighted how we do too much based on habit and custom and not always on hard data about what actually works.
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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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Do You Spend More Time With Your Eagles or With Your Turkeys?
Managers spend all their time with their “best” folks and let their “under-performers” just kind of exist. This may be misguided if we want to significantly improve our performance.
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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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