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Start Fresh; Don't Fix
Reblogged from Leadership Freak: Toddlers who stumble and fall aren’t broken; they need practice. Fixing is a backward-facing activity that centers on mistakes and weaknesses. Move forward; don’t fix....
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Moving from Planning to Doing on Your Project
I’m almost three weeks into a new job. This job requires me to build stronger relationships between a complex business environment and its IT providers. No one has had this same job for this business...
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Managing Project Starship
Dr. Mae Jemison, Principal of the 100 Year Starship project (and former astronaut), was asked by New York Times columnist, Dennis Overbye, if she would go on a lifetime voyage to the stars. She said...
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Do You Want Your Project Manager To Be Like Bobby Knight?
I woke up to NPR this morning and listened to an interview with Bobby Knight, the famous college basketball coach. The interview discussed his new book “The Power of Negative Thinking.” To sum it up,...
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Bring “Wow” to Your Projects
Reading “Leadership Freak” on Monday was reaffirming. Dan Rockwell wrote about leaders who achieve great success by setting a vision, bringing in good people, and getting out of the way. His primary...
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Happy Families, Happy Projects
For the past several years I’ve encouraged all my clients, and now my co-workers, to adopt agile methods on their projects. I also encourage it for any work, like software maintenance work, that can...
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Pull is Better Than Push
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about how organizations change. The bottom line seems to be that successful change comes from people pulling it in. You can’t push change in. Do our projects focus...
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Positive Psychology and Perfect Project Outcomes
Finding the other side of risk – opportunities for perfect outcomes – isn’t done in lieu of finding risks; it’s the complement. Science tells us that this is true and necessary. I’m getting ready...
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The IKEA Effect – Projects Made with Love
Maybe the secret ingredient to project success is love. After all, isn’t anything made with love more special to the maker and the receiver? Maybe someone should do a study on this. Wait, someone...
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Improvisational Projects
Project management success can be as much improvising and adapting as it is planning and controlling. Opportunities to find what can go right constantly present themselves. How to effectively improvise...
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