In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability …
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The double benefit of focus, and how to achieve it
Some lessons keep coming round, for me they do anyway... Getting focused has a double benefit—probably more than double actually. Dropping some tasks—disengaging from some projects or …
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They don’t know they’re doing it, and nor do we
I imagine you’ve had this experience... Someone keeps repeating a behaviour that causes problems for everyone else. “Why do they keep doing that?” we ask ourselves. “Why do they not see that there …
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Do you know enough to not know?
How much knowledge do you need to have before it feels OK to say you don’t know? Seems like a paradox, doesn’t it? If we know quite a bit about something, we probably have a good idea just how much …
Are you playing pinball?
It’s a strategy for corporate or organisational survival... “Getting the issue off my desk” (and onto someone else’s). I think we all do this, one way or another—in our personal lives too. It’s one …
Does change come before leadership?
In the dictionary it does, of course. And perhaps in real life too. Certainly the two things are closely tied up with each other. Is the need for leadership prompted by external change, or should …
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