FYI, a Wall Street Journal article (“Dangers of Clinging to Solutions of the Past”) based in part on interviews w/ yours truly came out today (link here, page B4 in the paper). Thanks to … more →
Crossderry BlogPaul Ritchie wrote 9 months ago: FYI, a Wall Street Journal article (“Dangers of Clinging to Solutions of the Past”) base … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 9 months ago: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. This quote … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 10 months ago: Michael Krigsman over at IT Project Failures hosted the first in what he hopes will be a regular ser … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. When I was younger, I never got … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Glen at Herding Cats (here) points to a Center of Business Practices study (here) on the causes of t … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Glen at Herding Cats hits back hard (here) at one of the breed of ”Project Management Impresar … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: I forget to whom I should give the hat tip on this topic, but Here’s a study by Logica that hi … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Jerry Manas’s post at PM Think (here) is a useful reminder to avoid a common error made when P … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Tom Peters has a list on how to lead during what he calls “weird” times (post here, also … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Executive body language after cancelling too many meetings The corner cutting poll’s top answe … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: We had a discussion of gold-plating in project management during my leadership team meeting last wee … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: I very much like the sentiments expressed by Claude Emond on the Reforming Project Management blog. … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: As promised, I’m going to blog on the Researching the Value of Project Management study that P … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Nice post on after-action reviews (AARs, or what we call reviews or debriefs) by Ed Kless at VeraSag … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: I was going through a list of upgrade tip articles collected by Demir Barlas (here) in his SAP Watch … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: While we’re on escalated projects it’s a good time to hearken back to Dietrich Dorner … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: “AND to be able to explain it …” — Pericles on leadership The great Athenian recognized that … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: Typically, a formal escalation revolves around major problems like a system stand-still. For example … more →
Paul Ritchie wrote 1 year ago: In my comment I wrote “it’s funny,” but it’s actually sad that Carl Pritchar … more →