As a professional musician in a past career lifetime, I can relate to these lessons. I found while trying to perfect the presentation of a piece, whether for competition or recording, that when I recorded a song and played it back, I systemically got better. That’s because I received FEEDBACK from an unbiased media. Indeed,…
Category: results
Do you Embrace Prosperity or Poverty? – How to Achieve More Effective Events
Do you or other event planners operate from stoic, outdated mental models that produce marginal results? Or are you interested in more highly motivating and inspirational events? This means you get results that stimulate professional development as well as prove financially successful. You can employ practices that embrace a prosperity approach rather than clinging to…
Are You “In the Game”?
In a discussion about additional costs being added to my home build project, I made a comment to our builder that “I don’t want to play that game.” He took offense at that comment. I believe he thought I was trivializing the situation and not honoring standard industry practices. The conversation did not go well….
Control or Results? How to Manage the Paradox and Achieve Greater Project Results
Randall L Englund Executive Consultant, Englund Project Management Consultancy Abstract Project work overwhelms us with choices. Often the choice in projects is between control and results. Onerous controls inhibit achieving results. You can pursue both control and results…up to the rare point where the two actually conflict. Which value will you choose when they conflict…