Nov.25.11 , In
BPI , by
Niki Hammond
Your entire staff complains that they are overworked. And yet, deadlines are being missed. Tasks keep slipping through the cracks, and it seems the whole department, maybe even the whole organization, is struggling to keep up. You need more people to help, right?
Not necessarily.
Allegories are all the rage these days, and so I submit the following:
An elderly couple hosted Thanksgiving dinner for their 12 children and grandchildren over the holidays. Well-raised kids that they were,...
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
This is one of those annoying questions that philosophy professors like to pose as thought experiments to students pondering the nature of reality. A true student of philosophy may launch into a heavy discussion of metaphysics. Those who prefer their questions to be answerable would do well to respond: It depends. Define "sound."
The American Heritage Dictionary...
Now.
I recently overheard this comment regarding a project that was initiated four months ago and has a deadline of July 30. "We're still sort of in the planning stages right now, but once the work begins we'll need to hire a PM to see it through." This was said by a non-technical staff member of a very technical project.
While textbooks may not define it as such, Planning IS work. It is perhaps the most undervalued,...