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The Leadership industry should start being honest and stop wasting peoples’ time by pretending that everyone can become a leader with a bit more effort and, of course, the right training materials. Picture credit: nicasaurusrex The honest truth is that not everyone can be a leader; real life isn’t like Lewis Carroll’s Caucus Race, with prizes for all. This truth shouldn’t Continue reading article » The annual cost of project failure in the European Union in has been estimated at €142 billion according to research by Dr John McManus and Dr Trevor Wood-Harper. The research defines project failure as not meeting any or all of the following success criteria: cost, time, quality and original requirements. According to the report, which looked at 214 projects between 1998 and Continue reading article » Bill Gates has stepped down from his last management position at Microsoft. One of the great achievements of Microsoft during his time at the helm has been to offer a standard platform on which enterprise applications can be developed. Bill’s greatest legacy to the corporate world is interoperability. Microsoft’s success in the past three decades under Bill Gates was undoubtedly based on creating Continue reading article » From Computer Weekly: “The government has wasted at least half a billion pounds on overrun IT projects, according to figures collected by Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable.” Congratulations to Vince Cable for highlighting more symptoms of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire. What we really need though is for Government to change their behaviour. Taxpayers and politicians need to ensure that Government bodies adopt Continue reading article »
We’ve all got one, haven’t we? A project that nobody wants to know, let alone be part of. Starved of resources and goodwill the staff on such Cinderella projects languish alone, apparently unloved by the rest of the organisation, while they wait desperately for a friendly Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming to rescue them from their life of drudgery Continue reading article » |
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