Control – the Illusion
Know any control-freaks?
For many of them, control is an illusion. Paradoxically, by grasping for more control, they often get less.
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Project Managers get no respect!
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly …
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Executing Strategy
The global business landscape is littered with expensive, well-intended strategies that don’t deliver value, often because leaders failed to identify …
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Project Turkey
Just as there are many ways to manage a project, there are many ways to cook a turkey. We all …
Keynote on Creating Excellence
Creating Excellence in/through Project Management means optimizing and achieving greater results from project-based work: realizing a competitive advantage by executing …
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Too Much of Too Much…
Mark you calendar for Monday, July 16, 2007 to go to Michael’s at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA. That evening …
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Saving the day – solving a potential crisis
Managing projects, as I keep repeating, is about managing people and problems. I have a great example of a manager …
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Over-extending – over-commitment – over-time
My ex-husband always made us late for appointments because he’d estimate time “as the crow flies” – not ever taking …
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Crossing the Knowing-Doing Gap
A couple of days ago I adamantly asserted that people working on projects sometimes know what needs to be done …
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