Not a HIT
IT [Information Technology] use in the healthcare industry has experienced tremendous growth and attention since 2007. Yet concrete and credible evidence that HIT improves health outcomes remains...
View ArticleClean out the queep
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.” In an interview at her...
View ArticleBeing too simple can be a good thing
Yet Abt, on behalf of Carthage College, in Kenosha, Wis., has returns that beat Harvard ’s $37 billion endowment and most others. In the 10 years through the most recent college fiscal year, ended on...
View ArticleShaping Priorities
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash “It’s almost like a dark state going on in Tallahassee,” said Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican and critic of the “culture of Tallahassee that compromises the...
View ArticleRefactoring Stream-Of-Thought Management
Credit: /dev/solita Refactoring not only helps improve the mechanical quality of code; it also helps you learn from your code. When refactoring, you converge on better models. Right now, your code...
View ArticleWhatever Triggers Our Attention Go For It
[Anouk] Wipprecht finds that her keys to success are curiosity, being willing to work across disciplines, and having a clear mission. “Whatever triggers your attention, go for it,” she says. “A lot of...
View ArticleWhen Product Success Is Bad For Project Management
Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
View ArticleALWAYS Is Probably Not The Word We Want To Use
"I’ve ALWAYS found that the face-to-face relationship is far superior." Always?
View ArticleCan We Really Just Ignore The Small Stuff?
In the worst case I figured, I could always change them back to what they were. So I “fixed” them. Disaster?
View ArticleInexperience Can Be Our Greatest Asset
Go for it. Your inexperience can be your greatest asset.
View ArticleProject Management Lessons From The Snowden Affair
That’s astonishing to me. The rules are not being applied well or they need to be more strict! Uh, oh - not so fast Senator.
View ArticleHow To Stay A Step Ahead By Not Trying Real Hard
If we believe real hard we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
View ArticleWhen Innovating, Go Slow?
The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.
View ArticleProject Managers History Shows Us How To Innovate Successfully
“How did you do that so fast?” I cheated back then and these kind of cheats (innovations) still work just fine today.
View ArticleSuccessful Project Management Is As Easy As Safely Flying A Plane
It’s been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people. Its a dramatic turnaround. How did they do it?
View ArticleHow to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
View ArticleProductivity Lessons Learned from the 113th US Congress
The divided Congress on its way out was the second-least productive of the past 40 years. Lawmakers passed 296 laws in 2013 and 2014, a dozen more than their predecessors in the 112th,113th Congress,...
View ArticleIt Is The Idea, Not The Money That Brings Success
In no case did we ever need more money for a project to succeed.
View ArticleLessons Learned From Little Caesars – Small Changes Make A Difference
OMG, that's boring. Wouldn’t we rather be in a group and just argue over what would be the better way to improve?
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