Structured approach versus improvisation

Some time ago, delivering a Project management training in France, I had a discussion with a participant on the words ‘in a structured manner’ being part of the definition of

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I have to be creative right now! …

Yesterday I did it to myself again, I had to be creative. So start thinking really hard, after all, google and you will find lots of creative-thinking lemmas? No way,

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How strokes do get you results

You know how the Americans believe strokes – compliments – to be most effective in raising motivation? Too American for your taste? Well, maybe you should reconsider. Strokes or compliments

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The cost of a book is in the reading, now to get the return

In his introduction to the paperback edition of Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (2002) writer Jim Collins states: ‘What is the true price of a book? Not

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Project management: doing things right or doing the right things?

Fact is a project has either a result or even an implemented result that already generates impact. But where do projects start? In our practice my colleagues and I rarely

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System audits part 2, measuring effectiveness

That a system is effective, does that imply that it is guaranteed that only good product will be produced? We know that even full inspection of the final product will

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System audits part 1, defining effectiveness

ISO19011 defines the objective of system audits a.o. as ‘evaluation of effectiveness of management system in meeting its specified objectives’. I find that people use this definition, but have different

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