Archive for September, 2009

Clarify your goals

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

I often wondered why theories like the law of attraction work. The only explaination I came up with is that we all have a limited ability to focus on ideas. I always have many distractions floating around in my head. Anyway these theories tend to focus our ...

WHAT IS THE REAL STATUS OF THE PROJECT?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Have you ever been in a project management position when it comes time for the popular status report and you are 180 degrees apart from everyone else? As a project manager when this happens I am absolutely astounded that I am the only person in the group who ...

Can you have multiple visions?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I do not see a problem with multiple visions as long as they support each other in some way. I do not think they can be totally isolated and definitely can not be a negative influence on each other. I do not see a problem with having a ...

THE PUZZLEMENT OF FAITH

Monday, September 7th, 2009

There a lot of things I wonder about in this life and one of those things is faith. I had thought that faith meant a belief in something as being true without any proof. As I get older this definition has changed for me. I now believe ...

STRATEGIC PLANNING GETS A BUM RAP

Monday, September 7th, 2009

I have seen people cringe at the mention of strategic planning. I think that this process is getting a bum rap. Strategic planning is made up of 4 critical sub-processes; i.e. (1) A GAP Analysis to determine weaknesses, (2) Documenting the vision to define your goal, (3) Identifying resources ...

Busy Work

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

After a discussion about strategic planning I had someone tell me "Our purpose is not about plans or execution of plans. That is simply busy work." That did not mean that this person was not interested in planning, it was just not their focus. The problem is that without ...