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Project Management in the time of COVID
The first in a series of five papers by Dr. Lynda Bourne, commissioned by PM World Journal has been uploaded to the Mosaic website. Uncertainty – Is it time to rethink? considers what uncertainty...
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Good Governance, Good Outcomes!
Good governance is focused on setting the ‘right’ rules and objectives for an organisation, management is about working within those rules to achieve the objectives. Prudent governors also require...
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Selling Change – lessons from Brexit
Is the reason so many change initiatives fail an excessive focus on the ‘technical benefits’ and future value? Some of the lessons from the Brexit campaign would suggest ‘YES’! Before people will buy...
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Stakeholders and Reputational Risk
Your reputation and your organisation’s reputation are valuable assets that need nurturing. The willingness of others to trust you, their desire to work with you and virtually every other aspect of the...
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Ethics and competition
The report of The Senate Education and Employment References Committee report: A National Disgrace: The Exploitation of Temporary Work Visa Holders; released on the 17th March highlights a major...
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Practical Ethics 2
A couple of weeks ago I posted Practical Ethics discussing the undue reliance governments and others place on other people’s ethics, Through naivety, undue optimism, or laziness, they set up...
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How to succeed as a PM in 2016
Projects are done by people for people and through the medium of social media, people power is growing. Successful project managers know this and use it to their advantage; they create a team culture...
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Governance and ethics
Back in June I posted on Governance and Stakeholders focusing on the damage institutions were doing to their stakeholders through on-going governance failures. Two of the organisations discussed (not...
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Defining Stakeholder Engagement
Two earlier posts have discussed the concepts of stakeholder engagement. The Elements of Stakeholder Engagement discussed the three foundations of stakeholder engagement and the paradigm shift in...
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The Elements of Stakeholder Engagement
Effective stakeholder engagement is a two-way interactive relationship that encourages stakeholder involvement in the organisation for the benefit of both the stakeholders and the organisation. The...
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Governance and stakeholders
Both stakeholder theory and the modern concept of organisational governance place importance on the organisation fulfilling the needs of all of its stakeholders. The older, generally discredited...
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If you screw-up, own-up
One of the traits that strong leaders and credible advisers have is the willingness to ‘own up’ to mistakes they’ve made. No one operating effectively as a project or program manager, or for that...
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Dealing with bad news
The current faux furore around the Australian Governments response to the Human Rights Commission offers a textbook study on dealing with bad news. I am assuming none of the protagonists believe child...
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The Functions of Governance
We have published 3 papers recently that clarify and differentiate the functions of management and the functions of governance. The widely accepted ‘functions of management’ developed by Henri Fayol...
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Stakeholders generate profits for shareholders
A few months ago I posted on the concept of Understanding stakeholder theory and suggested organisations that focus on providing value to stakeholders do better than those focused on short term rewards...
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Designing effective KPIs
In a couple of posts I highlighted the damage that poorly considered KPIs and incentive payments can cause either to the organisation or its customers: The normalisation of deviant behaviours looked at...
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The normalisation of deviant behaviours
The ‘surprise’ recorded in our local paper over the release of a Senate enquiry into the wealth management practices of the CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) is itself rather surprising. The...
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The strategic management of projects
One of the clearest messages emerging from a range of sources is that ‘project management’ as defined by the PMBOK® Guide and other similar documents is simply not enough! As Professor Peter Morris...
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Effective Communication = Effective Project Stakeholder Management
A small group of project manager s spent an enjoyable 90 minutes in an ‘un-conference session’ during the Project Zone Congress earlier this month discussing the biggest single challenge to project...
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Practical Project Politics
PMI expects project managers to be politically smart and recognises that the appropriate and skilful use of politics and power help the project manger be successful (PMBOK® Guide Appendix X3.7). But...
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