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Six Attributes of Decision Quality
Particularly in the case of capital projects, much of the critical decision-making occurs at the front end, when teams have the greatest opportunity to maximize value by shaping the opportunity…
Short Interval Control: Magic You Can Use Immediately to Stay on Schedule
Leading Projects does a lot of work for clients in a practice area we call “Strategic Interventions,” which usually involves helping project teams recover from schedule slippage — always incredibly…
Leading From Home
This post was written by Greg Sills, Rich Layton, and Davia Sills. Yes, we said “leading”—but that doesn’t mean you have to be an executive or supervisor to take on…
Is Your “Stage-Gate System” Destroying Value?
For years now, stage-gate systems have become a “best practice” to ensure that capital projects achieve the appropriate state of readiness before they advance from one stage to the next….
4 Reasons Your Project Process Is Failing You
Most companies that have a capital project portfolio of any size strive to have a common process by which the projects will be done—nobody wants each project team to reinvent…
Managing the Unexpected: The Art of Mindful Leadership
Effective leaders anticipate a certain amount of risk. That’s why well-managed projects generally have sophisticated, built-in risk management tools and processes. The whole idea is to identify the risks, assess…