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Self-management through self-reflection
MAY 29, 2023
Your success depends on productivity. Your productivity depends on your effectiveness and effectivity. Those are two base assumptions for the self-reflection about self-management.
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Why do organisations initiate a project for every new task today?
MAY 29, 2023
I was asked this question in a round table session by a journalist of the Harvard Business Manager. I like these rounds with people from outside our profession because they ask questions we never...
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Walk-in experience: Why cooperative education makes sense?
MAY 29, 2023
The education industry has been transforming and evolving on an ongoing basis. If anything, the onset of COVID-19 has only resulted in an accelerated pace of transformation.
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Project manager – project staff fit: Does it matter?
MAY 29, 2023
The ad-hoc nature of project organizations necessitates putting together new teams at the start of almost every project. This could be unsettling for people who are coming into the project to work...
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What lies ahead for Project Management as a discipline?
MAY 26, 2023
❝ When thinking is submerged with thoughts of ‘not’… then knotting that ‘not’ is the only plot to progress ❞
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Monitor progress using standards and facts
MAY 26, 2023
I speak to many CIOs and IT managers, and I notice that many of them are struggling in this ‘Agile’ era. They often have many (self-managing) agile teams, and they lack control. When it comes to...
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Project leadership and situational sensitivity
MAY 26, 2023
Project leadership is a journey of continuous adjustments and refinements of actions and behaviours, rather than the mere mastery of a best practise-based set of skills. It has remained one of the...
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What if the concept of project management had not existed?
MAY 26, 2023
Modern-day project management is roughly seventy years old and is evolving continuously. From traditional process and methodology-driven approaches to more flexible, agile-based approaches and...
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Project Governance
MAY 25, 2023
Project governance is a mechanism to set objectives, exercise control, and establish a framework for decision-making, authority and compliance. Projects being temporary structures raises the question...
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The power of organisational intelligence within project teams
MAY 25, 2023
Organisational intelligence, or the combined brain power of a team to respond to new information in pursuit of goals, requires effective communication, the right culture, and delegated...
