"In a single instant of time, pure performance is all that matters, but, over a prolonged period of time, survival overcomes pure performance." (Cf. Luca Delanna)[1] Playing Russian Roulette Many…
Like a sand pile creates avalanches, our world sees reorganizations, small and large, frequent and infrequent that we must anticipate and prepare. Imagine That You Build a Sand Pile on…
Do You Need a PMO or a TMO? Everyone knows what the various types of PMO generally do. Yet, following the current fad for "business transformations", many change the name…
A career develops over the years with a succession of missions and projects. Yet many ask : “How can project manaement practitioners develop an exciting career?” Here are my 7 recommendations.
There is something “people with white beards” have learned: complex environments require indirect rather than direct strategies. Indeed, direct strategies often fail in complex environments. As a symbol of an indirect approach, look at an ear of corn. You weed, hoe, and water the corn. Then wait for the moment of ripening.
Things seem to go ever faster, especially in the domain of Project Management. Behind this phenomenon is a universal law, the Maximum Entropy Production Law. This article proposes a few tips to navigate as safely as possible the waves of this MEP law.
Tipping points make a project, a program, or a portfolio performance take off in an unexpected and favorable way. Here are seven features that help this emergence.
