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An Alternative That Actually Delivers "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway Lisa sat in her car after another brutal stakeholder meeting, staring at her phone. Three missed calls from her team. Two escalation emails from her
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How Traditional Project Management Has Perfected the Art of Failing Successfully Traditional project management has perfected the art of failing successfully. Think about that for a moment. We've created systems so focused on process compliance that they can deliver complete failures while celebrating success. Green dashboards. Met deadlines.
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." — Carl Sandburg Time moves in only one direction. Unlike money, which can be
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The Efficiency Paradox: How Project Management Creates the Waste It's Supposed to Eliminate In Part 1, we exposed the fundamental flaw of traditional project management: its obsession with measuring process adherence instead of actual outcomes. Now let's examine the first devastating consequence of this misalignment, how
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Project management is essential for coordinating complex initiatives and delivering results. However, there's a fine line between effective project management and counterproductive mismanagement that stifles productivity and demoralizes teams. As Peter Drucker observed, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." The question
What Business Schools Won’t Tell You In an era of growth hacking, viral marketing, and disruption at all costs, two unlikely books hold the real secrets to successful business: Rabbi Daniel Lapin's "Thou Shall Prosper" and Og Mandino's "The Greatest Salesman in
There are thousands of books on leadership, and I have read many of them. Some are helpful, most are too clever for their own good. Many dress up common sense in theory and jargon. But for me, it all boils down to two things. Find your people. Do what you
“Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.” ~Richard Branson I fail every day. Not in dramatic, movie-worthy ways. In quiet ones. The missed moment. The unreturned call. The conversation I could’ve handled better. Sometimes it’s dropping the ball. Sometimes it’s carrying too much. Sometimes
Some dining rooms are built for efficiency. Others are built for reverence. The kind of room where the world slows down. Where the light is warm, the sound is soft, and something inside you settles. I’ve walked into a few of those spaces over the years, and I’ve
“Music is the space between the notes.” ~Claude Debussy I’ve always felt that great meals are like great symphonies.There’s a rhythm to the room. A flow to the conversation. A cadence to the courses. And just like in music, the art doesn’t live only in the
“A great performance is like a conversation between the seen and the unseen.” ~Unknown Behind every unforgettable meal is a team you rarely see: chefs, sous chefs, line cooks. They move in quiet rhythm, shaping something greater than the sum of its parts. You don’t see their work, but
“We do not remember days; we remember moments.” ~Cesare Pavese There’s a moment in a great dining experience when everything comes alive, the guests stop thinking about the menu, they’re tasting, laughing, leaning in—caught in communion. The space becomes more than a canvas, it envelops them in