Everybody loves a good framework. A step-by-step process to unlocking success with defined guardrails and exercises. Even better if that framework comes with a simple visual representation. Something akin to building a house, laying a foundation, framing up the walls, and filling it with joy and wonder. We in the business symbolism world rarely build […]
Read MoreI remember as a tween, showing off how high I could kick by kicking as high as my classmates’ faces when they’d done something offensive. I don’t remember what those offenses were, but I do remember that in short order, I had acquaintances coming to me asking me to “beat up” so-and-so. What a weird […]
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Alright, we always have to start with the fundamental question- What is risk? Risk is the possibility that an event, positive or negative, impacting a project’s outcome could happen. For most traditional projects, positive risk has only one response- accept. Work got done faster than we thought? Cool, put that extra time into our schedule […]
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When I made the spur-of-the-moment decision to start my own project management consulting business, I didn’t give the structure of my latest scheme much of a thought. I’d been reading plenty of books about negotiation and doing what makes you happy that included examples related to starting a business that made me feel like my […]
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When I set out to leave my ledge behind me, I erased the large “Say YES to YOURSELF” message from my vision board and replaced it with a poorly rendered doodle of my stick-figure self-stuck halfway up a rock climbing wall that I had previously struggled with. I’ve tackled this route several times at the […]
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