by Kiron Bondale | Jan 9, 2022 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, lessons learned, project management, Project performance, Risk Management
Bruce Lee might have been referring to improvement in one’s mastery of the martial arts when he uttered the title of this week’s article, but when Daniel Pink referenced it in his latest Pinkcast, it reminded me of how apropos it is to many things. With gyms closed in...
by Kiron Bondale | Jan 2, 2022 | Agile, communications, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, Stakeholder analysis
I’m just wrapping up Adam Grant’s book, Think Again. I’d first heard Adam speak at the in-person (yes, there was such a thing at one time!) PMI Global Congress conference in 2019 and appreciated both his ideas as well as how he delivered them. His latest book focuses...
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 26, 2021 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, lessons learned, project management
Tis the season – for New Year’s resolutions. Like lessons (rarely) learned sessions at the end of projects, annual resolutions have received their fair share of ridicule. For gym rats like myself, a humorous way to help shake off the doldrums of the post-holidays...
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 19, 2021 | improving project management, project management, Project performance, Stakeholder analysis, team building
“Laugh and the world laughs with you” goes the old saying, but that’s not always the case in the workplace. An HBR article covering research conducted in health care on the impact of humor in clinician-patient interactions is equally applicable in other industries....
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 12, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, lessons learned, project management, Project performance, Psychological Safety
Daniel Pink’s latest Pinkcast episode focuses on learning from failure. He discusses Tina Seelig’s suggestion to her students to write a failure résumé listing some of the bigger mistakes they’ve made in their personal, education and professional journeys along with...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 28, 2021 | improving project management, project management, Project performance, Risk Management
When Fred Brooks Jr. wrote The Mythical Man Month, he provided project managers with the valuable caution which later was named Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later“. While there are always exceptions, this statement is generally...
