by Art Petty | Sep 4, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Dr. James T. Brown, PMP, offers a number of interesting observations about achieving the right balance between methodology and pragmatism in his PM World Today Viewpoints article, entitled: Why Your Project Management Methodology Doesn’t Matter Much. His central...
by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
Today’s post was stimulated by a great article in the July/August 2008 Harvard Business Review, The Competitive Imperative of Learning, where Professor Amy Edmonson of Harvard Business School outlines the differences between organizations that focus on execution as...
by Art Petty | Jun 23, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
A number of months ago, I wrote about the benefit of applying professional project management practices to help improve strategy execution (Struggling with Strategy? Think Project Management). While many view strategy as something that is transformational (and...
by Art Petty | May 18, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management
I recently conducted a leadership workshop for a group of technical professionals at an industry conference, and as always, I walked away from the session with a couple of insights gained from the input of the participants. One that surprised me was that after...
by Art Petty | May 4, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management
Every Project Manager with a few years of experience under his or her belt can likely recall at least one example of a major project that lived on long after the plug should have been pulled and the project canceled. The best (or worst) examples are the...
