While admitting that biases impact decision-making and becoming more knowledgeable about biases is a good first step, that will not ensure a good decision-making process. But what can we do to improve our decision-making? …

During this blog series, I am exploring ways to help project leaders improve success. Most of the blogs focus on strategies that help during the start to finish phases of a project. But the decision making during the project selection phase is equally important if you want to improve your…

What would a value chain approach mean in the world of project management? In this blog, I’ll outline the basics of value chain analysis. And, I’ll offer some questions that executives, project sponsors, and leaders should consider as they decide how to undertake a project. Michael Porter first described a…

In this blog, I begin a short series with what I hope will be helpful posts that delve into some popular strategic thinking frameworks, designed to help decision-making. Project managers are often faced with the challenge of many opinions and insufficient facts. In this first blog, I will dig into…

If you live long enough, you will likely have to work with difficult leaders or just difficult people. And by using the term work in this context, I simply mean that you will have to communicate with them. It could be a family matter, neighborhood dispute, or an office conflict…

I was talking with a woman who works in an advertising company a while back and she was complaining about her workplace culture. She was young and inexperienced. She needed a mentor and what she got was a boss who lectures her about how she dresses, what time she arrives…

Habits are a popular topic for people who are looking to improve. Lots of popular authors including Gretchen Rubin and James Clear have written about how to create and maintain habits with techniques such as habit stacking. And since I’m interested in how we can leverage personal productivity improvements to…

In this blog, I will outline five reasons that we need to help businesspeople respect individuals. While the need to respect individuals is a very important value for me personally, I believe we have an increasing need to promote this value as AI seems to be moving closer to center…

For years, project managers have been taught that projects are either successful or not. It was a holdover from Waterfall project management. And as I suggested in a book review on Jennifer Pahkla’s book, Recoding America, we need to move to a paradigm of using project data as a dashboard…