How often are we surprised when a task, or entire project, slips unexpectedly because key staff have outrageously (sic) taken a holiday at a critical point in the schedule?
And, of course, the pattern of holiday absences is compounded by the number and variety of roles involved, which can make project management a nightmare from May through to [...]
Building a Senior Management Team is as easy as ABC, so long as that doesn’t stand for Antony, Brutus and Cassius!
You can usually judge a good director by the strength and quality of their direct reports, especially once the director has been in post for more than twelve months. By then the “Number One” should [...]
The Leadership industry should start being honest and stop wasting peoples’ time by pretending that everyone can become a leader with a bit more effort and, of course, the right training materials.
The honest truth is that not everyone can be a leader; real life isn’t like Lewis Carroll’s Caucus Race, with prizes for all.This truth shouldn’t really [...]
We’ve all got one, haven’t we? A project that nobody wants to know, let alone be part of. Starved of resources and goodwill the staff on such Cinderella projects languish alone, apparently unloved by the rest of the organisation, while they wait desperately for a friendly Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming to rescue them from [...]
The UK press is getting concerned about a growing IT skills crisis and I strongly believe that this is entirely a function of IT management policies and behaviour in the past decade. A talent shortage now shouldn’t surprise anyone after all the outsourcing, unsourcing and off-shoring. In the summer of 2004 I wrote the following cautionary advice [...]
We are all supposed to be good little Europeans these days so why do we consistently break one of
the few EU regulations most likely to be of direct benefit to us?
I am talking about the European Working Time Directive, which in my view is not only an extremely well-intentioned piece of Euro-legislation but also very well-ignored by almost [...]
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