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Managing your body budget – your brain’s most important job
You have a body budget, and managing it your brain’s most important job! How many people do you know who: are stressed, overwhelmed or on the edge of burnout? have reached for a self help book, and are disappointed with the results? It happens because Nobody has told them they have a body budget,…
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Project controls that name the elephant before it reaps havoc
A black elephant is ‘an unholy mix of the black swan and the elephant in the room and the conspiracy of silence that surrounds them’ Jonathan Norman was speaking about human-centric data when he introduced this metaphor. He went on to give a more precise definition: ‘A black elephant is when something catastrophic happens, ostensibly…
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Do your project controls miss the pivotal moments?
Have you considered the possibility your project controls miss pivotal moments? Ask a project leader what they find most demanding in project delivery and they’re likely to tell you it’s the people rather than technical issues. The authors of Gorilla in the Cockpit, Vip Vyas & Thomas Zweifel, put numbers on it people, capability, and…
Read More →Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do
Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do, the latest book from Carole Osterweil and the Association for Project Management is available to order here. Imagine understanding how the brain works. What if you knew what drives emotions, behaviours and decision making – in you and others? If all actions were informed by…
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