by PMO Advisory | Jun 16, 2014 | Leadership, Management
Recently, I had a negative experience with one of my favorite cloud services – Dropbox. Dropbox is one of the most mature of the cloud storage services, and the apps are on every platform I can think of. It is also pre-integrated with many if not most of the...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 2, 2014 | Management
Some say management is a science because like other scientific pursuits, there are predictable patterns that we can see, touch, and feel. Perhaps most important of all, it can be proven wrong – which is the hallmark of science. Like finding the nth digit to the...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 17, 2014 | Leadership, Management
Cases proving the value of in-house critics, dissenters and whistle blowers demonstrate that “groupidity”, a special form of groupthink wherein we collectively become willing to take risks we individually recognize as stupid, is alive and well. Since most new ideas...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 10, 2014 | Management
Despite the importance of strategic planning in business, most executives fear this process because they think failure will ruin their career. As a result, they construct a time-consuming comprehensive plan to govern the business’ activities. Unfortunately, this...