Identifying the measures of project success at the end of a project is too late to mitigate failures and major shortfalls in performance....
Communicating ethical practice
In my last blog I talked about the key roles and responsibilities for the development, implementation and monitoring of a business ethics...
How project managers can combat silo thinking
Threats emerge and opportunities are missed when the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Here's how project managers can...
Change management and embedding ethics
In my last blog post I talked about some of the impacts of having a lack of ethics in an organisation. Like any culture change process we...
Marketing 101 for project managers
You're a brand whether you like it or not—too many project managers forget that. Don't fall into the trap of neglecting your professional...
Accelerated learning for successful project management
Many people make the mistake of thinking success is either lucky or there’s some magic mojo that is out of reach for them. Both personally...
Is confirmation bias a risk for your project?
When we see both sides of the story it helps us see threats and opportunities—and find solutions—that may be out of the box. Here's how to...
Ethics drives project practice
I've heard of many recent examples of organisations not operating ethically, so thought I would do some research into the area of business...
ROI beyond financial metrics
What comes to mind when you think of 'return on investment' (ROI)? For most of us, our mind probably jumps to calculations of costs and...
Thinking at the margin for project managers
Thinking at the margin is economists' way of describing what happens when people make decisions based on incremental cost-benefit...