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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 →So last night I sat down in front of the TV I rarely watch and saw an unopened copy of Mr. and Mrs. Smith on DVD. “Hey,” I thought. “I’ll watch that, what a great idea!” And so began another lesson in [...]
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 [...]
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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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