There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
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Commitment-phobic organizations
Posted on November 13, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
The contrast between consensus and commitment has fascinated me ever since I first heard that distinction made. During my conversation on strategic commitment, Josh Leibner and Gershon Mader laid out some of the challenges of relying on consensus:
There will always be “the unforeseen” when executing strategy. Those who only give consent feel free to remain spectators. The [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Harold J. Smith
Posted on November 3, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
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Power of Strategic Commitment — Interview Intro
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
I’m catching up on some great material — at least great IMHO — that has been locked away in my notebook. Last month, I got a chance to talk strategy with Josh Leibner and Gershon Mader, founding partners of Quantum Performance, Inc. They have worked with Fortune 500 companies around the world including: Capital One, [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — St. Thomas Aquinas
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Beware of the person of one book.
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“Live” prototying/proof of concepts
Posted on October 22, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
It has been a busy few weeks here at MJN as we get the transition to stand-alone rolling. Like many large programs, our main transformation initiative — Sunrise (nice name, eh?) — sometimes acts as if it were the first program of any importance ever executed. Its size and stature also obscure other [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Carol Burnett
Posted on October 13, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.
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PM Quote of the Day — Joseph F. Newton
Posted on October 2, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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Which PM “faux pas” make your hair stand on end?
Posted on October 2, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
In my last post about the “school solution,” I noted that there’s something unnerving about project and program managers who skip over the basics. As Glen Alleman noted in his comment, the PM school solution or black letter law almost always has some merit as a start.
Thinking about this post brought to mind the various [...]
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PM Quote of the Day — Truman Capote
Posted on October 1, 2009 by Paul Ritchie
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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