The cigarette packet school of project management

The Capstans of Industry

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Anybody got a spare fag packet? I’m collecting them for a friend who is running a government project planning seminar next week and we need at least one packet between two so that each delegate can get the full, hands-on, scribbling experience.

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misalignment of business and personal benefit

incentives by opensourceway on flickr

How often do you see a project proposal that makes provision for staff incentives to achieve the project objectives? I’ll bet such a thing is a rare beast indeed, if not extinct. But this might be a substantive cause of project failure and disappointment.
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