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Time for a revolution in the music industry

January 9, 2008

A while back I introduced Flo Radio to you as a technique for producing environmental sound to enhance team productivity.  The idea was to use Pandora’s streaming radio site, which allows you to set up “stations” that learn from the... Read more...

Project Management & Leadership Search Engine

January 4, 2008

A while back we put quite a lot of effort into this custom Google search engine, and while the traffic has been steadily increasing, it can still be improved...the more people use it, the better feedback we get, the better we can make it! The link for... Read more...

Ensuring Project Complexity has been Properly Assessed and Acted Upon

January 2, 2008

We've had an initial look at how we typically understate risks, but there's another question:  Are you implementing into a stable organisation? It's a bit of a trick question, isn't it?  You'd love to say "yes", but you know the more accurate... Read more...

Facebook Spam, Phishing? www.facebook.com.profile.php.id371233.cn

January 2, 2008

Breaking from the topic of Project Leadership for a moment, I was intrigued to receive this message on Facebook from a friend in London at 5:15 this morning: lol i cant believe these pics got posted....its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees... Read more...

The Scale of The Project

December 28, 2007

Once the scope of the project has been challenged, socialised and agreed upon, it's time to start estimating the scale of the project.  Clearly, producing a project schedule that significantly underestimates the work and duration of the team will... Read more...

The Scale of The Problem

December 14, 2007

I regularly see project management texts discussing character types with respect to project team selection and composition.  For the most part, I believe this is an academic conceit, because it's incredibly rare to have such a large population of... Read more...

Thinking Systems

December 12, 2007

This mistake of premature closure appears to be a consequence of the structure of our brains.  Why our brains are structured this way is up to anthropologists to speculate (more stories) -but the process of making a decision appears to be based... Read more...

Ensuring that the team is aligned to the scope of the project

December 9, 2007

I'd recommend Daniel Gilbert's book "Stumbling On Happiness" to anybody.  It's an easy read, it's extensively researched, and I found his conclusions to be profoundly affecting.   On the topic of project leadership, there's one specific... Read more...

More on Meaning:…The Frame

December 4, 2007

As powerful as the story is, the frame is more important.  The frame is the perspective from which the project is viewed, and it is probably the single most influential factor in team motivation.  Let me share some examples; if the project... Read more...

More on Meaning: The Story…

December 3, 2007

The human mind has a special relationship with stories; they are our primary sense making mechanisms; they help us find meaning in events, past, present and speculative futures.  People read newspapers for just this reason - journalists take events... Read more...

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