Cost of Health?
What is the likelihood of a small startup being successful if its members don’t take their health seriously? In small companies it is known that everyone has to wear multiple hats and it usually takes...
View ArticleManage that financial belt…or it will get you!
Entrepreneurial business ventures have the same business concerns as their conglomerate competitors – they all want to turn a profit. They want their revenues to be significantly larger than their...
View ArticleExpectation Management a key component to Project Success
When we constitute a project we set out the desired project outcome – these are deliverables or key success factors (KSF). Why are these so important and for whom? As covered in an earlier post of mine...
View ArticleA little more about Projects
A while ago, I had written about “What a Project is Not”? This post is an extension of that post in which I will discuss why projects are needed and what projects, in fact, are. You will probably get...
View ArticleLeadership Cancers #3: The myth of peak performance
From sex to deodorants the push is for peak performance. The message is, “If you aren’t number one then there is something wrong.” After all, isn’t it important to be the biggest, fastest, or...
View ArticleYour readiness for managing your supplier after the negotiation
Regardless of the size of your organization, someone is responsible for identifying the need of a service or product being purchased. One could therefore surmise this individual would also assume the...
View ArticleProject Accounting – Do you really need it?
Let’s save answering the question posed in the title, for later on… lets first address a more fundamental question – What exactly is project accounting? Project accounting is the act of tracking total...
View ArticleThe Soul of a Project #3: Truth vs. Propaganda
“Truth is the first casualty of war,” is attributed to Senator Hiram Johnson, R-California, 1918. This can occur on projects as well. What can really muddy the waters is the confusion between facts...
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