Pizza and heroics
Some organisations just handle things. They take whatever comes in their path and find a way to tackle it with confidence.
It’s the difference between a first time project manager and...
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In the crisis, there’s only the problem that’s in front of you.
You focus where you can have the greatest impact. The next thing you have to do, then the next,...
At some point after the start, it becomes difficult. After the excitement and clarity that got you out of the traps, it’s all a bit more difficult, more mundane, a...
The joy is in the detail.
Sure. It can be a pain. But the pain isn’t the detail itself, it’s in getting to the detail, agreeing the detail, understanding the detail,...
It doesn’t matter who you’re talking to, there’s always someone else. Someone you can’t reach. Someone you can’t talk to yourself. It doesn’t matter how much formal authority they have,...