the people side of planning

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... the request of the subject, but the issues faced and the decisions made are real These are people in the weeds, just like you, fighting their way out.) In Part IV, we go through the five process ... occurred—perceived loss of face not the least among them On the other hand, people from those cultures often view North Americans as pushy, while Israeli employees may view them as soft and indecisive...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 01:27

... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... the request of the subject, but the issues faced and the decisions made are real These are people in the weeds, just like you, fighting their way out.) In Part IV, we go through the five process ... occurred—perceived loss of face not the least among them On the other hand, people from those cultures often view North Americans as pushy, while Israeli employees may view them as soft and indecisive...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... little understanding of the real concerns and issues of the local employees Discussion with peers at other sites revealed much the same feeling After the calls, many of the attendees at Tom’s ... enough, there may be no impact, but the later in a project they are discovered, the larger their impact on cost and the greater the time to fix them Arun has found that driving a process of constant ... to find in the knowledge worker world Susan Lucia Annunzio, former adjunct professor of management at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and president and CEO of The Center...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... leadership, view the world in this simplistic way Quite often, this hinders the dissemination of the technology they create, exactly the opposite of what they would like to see The next three stories ... Accountability: All the team members knew what was expected of them and what they could expect of others Accountability went all the way to the design center VP, who himself told the team in a kickoff meeting ... business and to the culture of the group, I spent most of the first week or so chatting with people, explaining a bit of my philosophy but mostly asking them for their views on the way previous projects...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... quiet!” Finally, they calm down They’re good people; they know the score Ravi continues “On the open items in the scope document— here is a list I have assigned each of you the appropriate open ... have discussed only twelve of the open items and closed only five of them Ravi has scheduled another two-hour meeting for the next day Another day shot, they drift back to their cubicles Jiao calls ... litany of problems and how he resourcefully solved them Once you understand your highest-risk open scope areas, then assign them to the right people for action and make sure they have the time...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... example, they may throw the ball without ensuring that there is a teammate in the vicinity of the pass Also, some of them learn how to be where the ball isn’t, without it being at all obvious that they ... as any emergent issues from the other four knowledge areas of HR, communication, procurement, and quality Of course, planning is the process where you “pierce the fog of American Management Association ... control that are useful to the people generating the data This requires that your approach to the project be one of solving the team’s problems, rather than controlling the project Your mindset...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... confident about their competence in the area of the soft skills, so they shy away from them If they feel they can’t something well, especially with many of them being perfectionists, they may not ... IN THE FIVE KEY PHASES OF A PROJECT how this project phase is approached in the PM profession PMs are too often trained to bother anybody on the project until they get the data they think they ... required of someone Not catching these kinds of situations early leads to a lot of rework on projects I coach my teams that if the answer to any of these questions is no, then they must list what the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... is the way to go The central planning way is to have an army of people gather data, create metrics, and tell people what to on the basis of conclusions drawn by you and that army of people The ... but there are a few areas to watch out for First, the automated nature of these systems means that the output is only as good as the original input and the frequency and the accuracy of the updating ... close to the end of the project Things look pretty good So let’s look at three scenarios First, the next project wants some of your people the best, of course And it wants them now Some of your...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... in the long run? Does it lead to real success? In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of very public examples, in the world of finance, in the car industry, and in others, where the lack of these ... technical aspects of the project and try to control the project through the traditional triple constraints of performance, schedule, and cost They essentially ignore the people aspects of the project ... discussion of each of the seven characteristics here in favor of a look at the big picture At the end of this case study, the divergent approaches have led to vastly different results, both for the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 12:20

... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... speeches about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals ... Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said It was the sort of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... revenue Unlike the busy lifestyle of fulfilling orders taken through a Web site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site the work, not you 19 20 Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google Google ... controlled their costs and tracked their returns) In time, the advantages of eBay’s system got the attention of midsize brick-and-mortar stores, which now operate eBay outlets as an essential part of their ... Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google In the next two years, online businesses might want to diversify their marketing efforts, reaching for recognition on other platforms besides Google’s...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2014, 20:18

... around the world The immediate trigger of the crisis was the end of the housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most of the loans However, the ... and 2007.180 The rapidly growing significance of the U.S financial services industry provides further evidence of the impact of the credit boom The financial services industry’s share of total domestic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:26

... was then the county-seat of Union county, but the name did not suit the people, and the title of the county was changed to Davis Late at night we retired, making our beds on the soft sides of ... rumblings of thunder we could hear the low sough and moan of the wind in the trees outside of the stockade, like the suppressed wail of human beings in pain; then would come a flare of flickering ... abundance of clear and good water The stockade had two gates, the main entrance being on the north side and the other through the eastern fence or wall The guardhouse was opposite the main gate, the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... functions of Ó FEBS 2004 b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of protein kinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex of the ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]) Redox regulation at each of ... effects of pharmacological inhibitors of ERK1/2 activation can be established, as contributions of glial cell derived cytokines or vascular effects of the inhibitors are not a factor However, the ... not a factor However, the possibility of other kinases also being affected by the inhibitors cannot be excluded Molecular manipulation of select components of the ERK1/2 signaling pathway will be...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... them navigate the twists and turns of the financial universe That effort was the genesis of a loyal community that remains to this day, and it was then I realized the power of the Internet, the ... enjoyed the California weather, I was a New Yorker at heart, and I wanted to be closer to the other side of my family CHAPTER • BAGEL BOY 17 My lone goal was to be on the other side of the cash ... be true to themselves and find some semblance of balance The Other Side of Wall Street ends with Chapter 18 aptly titled The Journey,” but there are now another dozen chapters since the book was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/05/2014, 14:03

... I.1 What’s the Dark Side? I.1.1 Why the Dark Side? I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? I.1.3 How Dark is the Dark Side? I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark Side I.1.6 ... start of the race The analysis of the failure of the project concludes the following: “Study after study reveals that sprinters have the most problems in the fractions of a second around the start, ... opposing group of professors never lost the desire to stop the project.) The Achilles’ heel of the project was the conceptual conflict between the anonymity of the feedback and the security against...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:41

... make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to too much We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really ... Eat your ownpoint where you can dogfood Get to a and will use it yourself Launch.better The sooner, the ... Priority Severity Impact LOE (Estimated) LOE (Actual) Browser/OS Relationships Keep it Redundant with the resolving comment Keep it Captured implicitly Captured implicitly Always “yesterday” Priority...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 13:50

... (previously formed by the OW of READ [10]) performed street theatre with acts that illustrated the modes of HIV transmission, the impact of the disease on the body's defences of the infected person, ... students (OW)." The educators acknowledged that the educational cartoons contributed to the success of the program Although the community response to the materials was favourable, some of the graphics ... to the success of the program Since the initiation of PEPP, organizations that are active in other states of India or other countries have expressed eager interest in translating or adapting the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... teachers The evidence was only strong enough to get rid of a dozen of them, but the many other cheaters had been duly warned The final outcome of the Chicago study is further testament to the power of ... speeches about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20