Unless you missed the 70s because of too many chemicals or not being born yet, you remember disco. And the associated afros and bell-bottoms and platform shoes and shark tooth pendants. Completely outta sight, baby…meet me later in your loudest polyester outfit [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So as I’m diving into research for this workshop on developing empathy in project managers, I’m overwhelmed by Google search results that show me exactly how much stigma and misinformation there is out there on the concept. Informed solely by the various websites out there, empathy is something best taught to children, hippies, [...]
Read more and share your opinion →In 2000, a the height of the dot com craze, I was contracted to build an e-commerce site. I had three months basically to build a portal for online trading of bonds, money market and foreign exchange products, translate it into six different Asian languages, and get it [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I found a great question on LinkedIn the other day, and I thought I’d share my thoughts on it here.
The question was, “how do you tell a CEO that he/she is the problem when consulting to help solve ‘the problem’?”
It’s a very common issue, isn’t it? CEOs [...]
Read more and share your opinion →One of the things I’ve always espoused is, for a manager to be effective, they have to be out there, among their people, getting their hands dirty. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. There’s a lot of managers out there who are afraid to talk to their people, and may feel most secure managing [...]
Read more and share your opinion →“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche
I’ve written about trust before. Indeed, it’s something I talk about quite often. I believe trust is one of the most critical components to any successful project implementation. When trust [...]
Read more and share your opinion →We already see a threshold system in the workplace: they’re called salary bands. The chief difference between game progression and a salary raise is, in gaming, the move from one threshold to the next is consistent, predictable, and well-known. If you want to get to the next level (and reap the powers and rewards of that level), then you need x number of points, have to have finished x number of achievements, or whatever the game demands of you. You know this ahead of time, and the rules don’t change halfway through. In the workplace, let’s be honest, this isn’t the case. For the most part, moving from one band to the next has more to do with your relationship with your employer than anything specific or measurable.
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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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