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Self-Improvement: Looking for your Blind Spots

Have you finished your goal-setting for 2015? How did you do it? Apart from external feedback, it can be hard to assess where you need to focus because of your…

Leaving the Walled Garden: Going Android

30 Dec 201431 Dec 2014

In the end, my decision to try an Android phone was more a reaction against the IPhone 5. In the fandom wars between Android and the IPhone, I have always…

Book Review: Teamwork is an Individual Skill

15 Dec 20144 Aug 2017

Teamwork Is an Individual Skill. The book title itself seems to turn our usual assumptions about teamwork upside down. And true to its title, the book tries to give its…

True communication is the response you get

"True communication is the response you get. This phrase might need some explanation in order to make complete sense. It is based on the idea that no communication attempt initiated…

Plan Some of Your Work, Work that Plan

22 Nov 201422 Nov 2014

The adaptive, flexible approach....views projects as dynamic, unstable, and hard-to-predict processes. It assumes that changes will take place during project execution - changes in the environment, the business, the markets,…

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Fighting Groupthink: How To Stop Conformity From Paralyzing Your Risk Management

8 Nov 20148 Nov 2014

"Over time, we learn to associate these two ideas: on the one hand, being in a crowd, and on the other, relinquishing responsibility. Crowd. Lack of responsibility. Crowd. Someone else…

Managing Your Emotions: In the Middle of a Tough Conflict

29 Oct 201429 Oct 2014

To beat a tough conflict, you need to quickly shift to a much bigger and higher state of mind than the conflict itself. The secret is to immediately think of…

Communication Management…

Complicated or Complex? Classifying Projects

19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014

Complicated or Complex How would you define them? Several years ago I would have thought they were nearly the same thing. Apparently, they are slightly different. In a recent…

Dealing with Uncertainty

Project management used to be about driving out uncertainty. You nailed down all the deliverables at the outset and fine-tuned your specs so implementation could be as routine as possible.…

Disaster management…

From the News: Using Resilient Risk Management to Fight the Ebola Epidemic

How do you address risks that are uncertain in impact and outcome? The PMBOK Risk management process attempts to identify specific mitigation responses to pre-determined scenarios. Risks with unknown impacts can't…