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Tag Archives: Management
Give yourself time to think
Why is it we schedule time for meetings, but not time for thinking? Take a look at your calendar. If it’s like mine used to be, it’s a series of scheduled meetings with some blank space in between for more … Continue reading
Some thoughts about commitments
No, this Blog is not dead. I think about it often; I just don’t have as much time as before to update it. I started taking some remote classes (what was I thinking?) and they are pretty much devouring every … Continue reading
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
Real vs. fake work: What are emails, meetings, etc.?
A couple years back, a group of us at work put together a series of classes designed to help people better communicate and manage their tasks more efficiently. We present them in a sequence we think makes logical sense: Email … Continue reading
Superficial pleasantries vs. honest relationship building
In my last post, I discussed some thoughts from reading Conger, Lawler, and Finegold’s Corporate Boards book. Here is something else that caught my eye in that book that has near universal applicability -not just to corporate (or observatory) boards. … Continue reading
Agile development and change implementation
While I’m on the topic of change management and how it isn’t very different than plain old good management, I feel like I need to address one additional aspect that people often get wrong. Initiating a big change is hard … 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