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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...

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Clean 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The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”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...

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Being 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...

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Shaping 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...

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Refactoring 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...

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Whatever 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...

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When 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.

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ALWAYS Is Probably Not The Word We Want To Use

"I’ve ALWAYS found that the face-to-face relationship is far superior." Always?

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Can 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?

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Inexperience Can Be Our Greatest Asset

Go for it. Your inexperience can be your greatest asset.

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Project 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.

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How 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.

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When Innovating, Go Slow?

The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.

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Project 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.

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Successful 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?

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How 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?

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Productivity 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,...

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It Is The Idea, Not The Money That Brings Success

In no case did we ever need more money for a project to succeed.

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Using Our WayBack Machine To Improve

It was, to put it mildly, a high-risk maneuver.

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Lessons 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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