A few years ago I was managing a complex enterprise program where we had a status review meeting with our vendor every Wednesday. I inherited these meetings from my predecessor. Weekly reviews are important, so I kept them. We had appropriate representation with myself, the vendor, and the program’s key stakeholders. We had a weekly [...]
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When I was a child, there was wonder to be had pretty much everywhere. There was Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, unicorns and fire-breathing dragons. My parents were rich storytellers and when my sister and I would ask how things came to be, they had a talent for infusing us with a genuine sense of possibility.
As we grew older, we broke the boundaries of parental control. We did more things on our own. We watched more TV, read more books, interacted with friends, and reached out into the world to inform ourselves. As we exposed ourselves to more and more and more noise, it started to drown out the magic and possibilities we learned as children. Somewhere along the line, noise obscured the magic completely.
Thus we entered the workforce.
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How well do you know the details of your project? If an executive called you up five minutes from now and asked for an update, could you give her one? Regular commenter Robert Kelly weighs in with an opinion piece about the need for [...]
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I recently came across this RSA talk by political activist Barbara Ehrenreich, in which she talks about the culture of forced optimism we seem to possess.
From a project management perspective, I think this is extraordinarily apropos. How many times have [...]
Read more and share your opinion →On April 5, 2010, I wrote an article “Team Building Makes Me Feel Dead Inside” where I talked about my thoughts on mandatory team building efforts. I don’t like them at all, mainly because I feel they’re more about giving lazy management a reason to ignore [...]
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I'm Geoff Crane. After 22 years in the trenches of a lot of tough projects, I decided to change direction a little bit and focus on sparking ideas in the vibrant field of project management.
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