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Approach your own personal voyage and projects… willing to learn and adjust as you go, and even to abandon a previous goal and change directions entirely should the need arise.
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290 |
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In a well-coordinated project or organization, every part of the plan comes together.
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151 |
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…innovation is not just a matter of having the right people. Innovators need resources, financial support, encouragement, and a project champion.
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233 |
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…research continues to show that when goals or projects are complex, planning always improves performance.
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196 |
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Psychology and power drive projects at all scales, from skyscrapers to kitchen renovations.
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…18 percent of IT projects have cost overruns above 50 percent in real terms.
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010 |
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If your project is ambitious and depends on other people and many parts, it is all but certain that your project is embedded in complex systems.
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012 |
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…the more time that passes from the decision to do a project to its delivery, the greater their probability [of failure].
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013 |
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From the dramatic to the mundane to the trivial, change can rattle or ruin a project – if it occurs during the window of time when the project is ongoing.
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015 |
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A project that enters [the ‘break-fix cycle’] is like a mammoth stuck in a tar pit.
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019 |
