#228 – MINDFULNESS AT WORK – STEPHEN VILLAESCUSA

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Are you looking to discover a path to your “own” inspiration, grace, fluidity, confidence, satisfaction & happiness? Ever thought about using mindfulness to chart the course?

What is Mindfulness? A Google query to the topic yielded no fewer than 168 million results. Although you’’find a lot of hype – without substance, there are many excellent resources to help build your skill set and start you on the pathway.

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#228 – BUILD ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY AND CAPABILITY FOR FREE – JOSEPH PARIS

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I was coaching one of the national oil companies in the Middle East, offering mentorship to the director of their operational excellence program.  He was frustrated because he had invested considerable funds building a team of sixty Lean Six Sigma Black Belts over a nine-month period, and they had not yet worked on—much less completed—any project nor had they realized any benefit to the company. 

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#228 – RESILIENCE AND ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT – JAME KLINE PH.D.

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The term resilience is used in reports and studies by numerous government agencies and international institutions.  For instance, in 20014 the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development issued a report entitled “OECD Reviews ofRisk Management Policies: Boosting Resilience Through Innovative Risk Governance”.

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#228 – PROJECT ORGANIZATIONS – HARMONY OR CACOPHONY – MALCOLM PEART

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In a galaxy far-far-away a Jedi Knight said, “Integrated Matrix” and, with a sweeping wave of his hand, the project organisation was immediately taken from the Dark side of chaotic confusion and the Force was with them…

This could be the end to a Star Wars movie about project management (LOL).  However, and with few earthbound Jedi project management practitioners, our project organisations are rarely perfect and not what they would claim to be.

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#228 – LET’S STOP CLOSING CORRECTIVE ACTIONS – TED SCHMIDT

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     I would ask you to look in your copy ofISO 9001:2015, clause 10.2 and highlight or underline the word “close” as it relates to corrective actions.  Before you look, it’s not there.  It’s not there….not anywhere in ISO 9001.  Well, if it is not there, where does it come from and why do we have to “close”corrective actions?  Here’s where we need to talk about how Uncle Buck found us in the first place.

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