Good project management isn’t about following a process.
It is about managing the process to fit the culture.
It is the curse of being well liked and connected to people. It may be a morbid way to look at it but in someways death is a measure of how many people’s lives you have been able to touch significantly. The best we can do is hope that those lives we do touch we do so in a meaningful way.
The internet is not a substitute for building deep personal relationships with your customer base.
Ottawa is a small northern Ontario town that just happens to have a quarter million civil servants.
The three hallmarks of long-term success in business are a) ethics over earnings, b) the journey over the race and c) consistency. Being first is not as important as providing value in the eyes of those you serve. If your view of the universe is so myopic that all you can see is the bottom line, chances are your customers will have moved onto other relationships where their opinion matters.
Things are never so bad that they can’t possibly get worse. There is no bottom to the depths at which one can find oneself. The important thing to remember is that there is always a ladder somewhere to climb out if we but look for it and hold fast to the idea that the glass is always half full.
Being virtual is a four-way balancing act between architecting the future, sculpting social culture, and planting the seeds of inner growth, all the while being both the participant and the observer.
Yes the future is bright – no one promised it would be easy. If it was, everyone would be doing it.