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Tag Archives: Communications
Additional Random Bits from the NASA PM Challenge, 2012
The annual NASA PM Challenge is a really good meeting. The speakers are generally excellent and the material covers a wide range from project management fundamentals to the latest great and innovative management ideas. The ratio of outstanding talks to … Continue reading
Managing Cost, Schedule, and Scope is not enough.
Project Management 101 teaches the need to actively, and simultaneously, monitor and manage a project’s cost, schedule, and scope. Project Management 102 might add risk management to the list as well. These ideas have become fundamental tenets of project management … Continue reading
Change Management – Another Instance of Management 101 Getting it Wrong
Change Management is a idiom often heard these days where I work. I’m sure you know what it refers to – the process of implementing change in an organization and converting employee’s initial reactions of fear/anger/doubt to ones of discovery/understanding … Continue reading
Another advocate for Openness, Transparency, and Accountable Management
Somewhat recently, I finished reading Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar. It was a very easy read since the techniques the author talks about using to restore his company to an industry leader agree a lot with what I … Continue reading
Healthy Conflcit
I recently picked up a copy of A Grand and Bold Thing by Ann Finkbeiner. It’s a book about the original Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). I actually haven’t read it yet, so I’ll probably say more about the book … Continue reading
There’s more than one set of reasons for not communicating well…
There are some other topics I’ve been wanting to write about lately, but this one just keeps on giving… I received an anonymous private reply to my previous post here on communications and the recent lunch meeting suggesting there are … Continue reading
To fix a problem, first look in the mirror, define it, and own it
There is an interesting discussion starting from a post I made on an internal work blog. So, I thought I’d repost a slightly edited version of it here. I attended a rather disheartening informal lunchtime meeting recently at work. One … Continue reading
VWs in China and building relationships
Combining my interests in German cars, international relations, and general management, I recently read the book, 1000 Days in Shanghai, by Martin Posth. The book is about Volkswagen’s initial journey to become the first international automobile manufacturing partner in China. … Continue reading