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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Leadership
Creating Excellence
Creating excellence IN project management is about viewpoints, insights, and practices on why, what, how, and who to optimize project-based
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Welcome to the Land of Canaan For Project Managers
Welcome to the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Milk and Honey*, for highly intelligent, very creative,
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“We are NOT under siege”
“Hey, Jerry, YES you are…” Dateline Carlsbad, CA: From the Thursday, May 29, 2008, edition of The Daily Journal serving
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Capturing The White House Is An Impossibility In This Political Chess Game
What project managers can learn from being broad-sided on their blind sides Project managers are highly intelligent, very creative, totally
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Dealing with Complexity
As the content and program director for the PMI NorCal Symposium 2008, I am biased but nevertheless excited as all
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“WE WILL NOT BE BLUDGEONED”
“WE WILL NOT BE BLUDGEONED INTO A TRANSACTION THAT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR STOCKHOLDERS”, Roy Bostock,
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Project Management is a Myth
Project management is a myth: .period: end of story: can’t be done: so don’t even bother trying: .unless of course,
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An unrepeatable success?
Back in the very old days (early 80’s), I was on a team (of 24, I think) that delivered a
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Saying No
Saying “no” is hard for everyone. “If I say “no”, they will think I’m not a team player.” “If I
An Outsourcing Progress Report
I’ve written somewhat negatively about outsourcing in the past: primarily issuing warnings about doing it without proper planning, for the
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