Self-management through self-reflection

Your success depends on productivity. Your productivity depends on your effectiveness and effectivity. Those are two base assumptions for the self-reflection about self-management. Some people are more productive than others, and some areas of the organization are performing better than others. So there must be a way how to better at what we do. Successful …

Powerful questions that change your life

Hate me – to make my work useful. That is a weird expectation when starting to work with a client. But it is an expectation, and it is a reasonable expectation – better than no expectation at all. As an American humorist, Don Marquis pointed out: “If you make people think they are thinking, they’ll love …

5Ws 1H: A technique to improve Project Management Efficiencies – IPMA International Project Management Association

Project management can be regarded as a multipurpose techno-managerial activity. The diversity of its applications necessitates making PM inclusive. One way to do that is to broaden its knowledge circumference by integrating new tools and techniques with an aim to enhance the quality of PM processes and the quality of products / services produced using …

A butterfly with a huge impact – IPMA International Project Management Association

Project management is surely a young academic field. Many of the original shapers of the field are among us and some of them are still quite active. It was truly an honour for me to be invited to participate in a seminar in Vienna late January to celebrate the 65th birthday of Professor Rodney Turner …

5S (or 6S) Lean Management technique: Possible uses in project management – IPMA International Project Management Association

The quality of project management processes has a significant bearing on the output(s) and deliverables of any project. Despite the availability of a large variety of quality management tools and techniques in general, the number of such tools / techniques used for project management work remains somewhat limited. Building inventories of quality management tools and …