#85 – CORPORATE CATARACTS – MARK MOORE

Leadership with vision is great.  It’s absolutely necessary.  But it won’t get you where you OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
intend to go if you have no strategy to fulfill it.  Like anything else, it takes planning and action.  Oh, and it takes strategy.  Far too many corporate executives equate vision with strategy and use the terms interchangeably.  That’s a big mistake.  You might even equate it with having “Corporate Cataracts”. Continue reading

#3 – INTELLIGENTLY ACCEPTING RESIDUAL RISK – WYNNLEE CRISP, PROJECTS@RISK

wynnlee-crisp pixEvery project is at some risk of failing to meet one or more of its fundamental objectives:  on-time completion, budget compliance, scope fulfillment, or quality.  Many of the threats to successful project delivery can be avoided, transferred, reduced, mitigated or prevented entirely.  The remaining threats have to be accepted or the project needs to be cancelled.  By intelligently accepting the right risks, even complex and risky projects can be successful.

Continue reading