Category: Meetings
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Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb
Our first article explored Rosling’s Dramatic Instincts—the biases that lead CIOs and Project Managers to overreact to crises, vendor hype, and boardroom pressure. This article explores the very humans tendency to take a ‘good enough’ approach to problem solving. “Heuristics” is the official name, but it is also known as the ‘Rules of Thumb’. Are…
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From Firehose to Filter: Effective information flow for CIOs, Portfolio Managers, and everyone else.
This piece borrows from fluid mechanics to give leaders a practical way to keep information laminar: a simple yardstick (IRe) and a few high-leverage moves—batch the message, narrow the audience, set a steady cadence, right-size scope. With three quick examples, we show how to turn a firehose into a controlled flow of information.
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How conflict can successfully be used to improve team performance …
Forming, storming, norming and performing is a well-known team building process. But can we harness the disruptive power of conflict to produce better outcomes for our business?
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Making meetings work for you and your project
I can remember very clearly the worst meeting I was ever involved in. A “flagship” municipal project with the potential to bring world admiration to a city. This new project needed new IT systems. So 44 of us sat in a room together — architects, engineers, program and project managers, business analysts, change managers,…
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