QUOTE OF THE DAY 14: MANAGING PROJECTS WITHOUT A GAME PLAN

Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan. -- K. Tate

QUOTE OF THE DAY 13: SOMETHING’S WRONG!

“If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 12: IT’S A POLICY!

“If it happens once it’s ignorance, if it happens twice it’s neglect, if it happens three times it’s policy.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 11: GOOD PROJECT MANAGERS

“Good project managers admit mistakes: that’s why you so rarely meet a good project manager.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 10: CHANGE FREEZE IS AN ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN

"A change freeze is like the abominable snowman: it is a myth and would anyway melt when heat is applied".

QUOTE OF THE DAY 9: AUTHORITY WITHOUT WISDOM

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. -- Anne Bradstreet

QUOTE OF THE DAY 8: TELL-SHOW-DO

  


Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand --Chinese Proverb

QUOTE OF THE DAY 7: WHY BOTHER PLANNING?

“A badly planned project will take three times longer than expected - a well planned project only twice as long as expected.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY 6: KEEP TALKING FOR PROJECT SUCCESS

"Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we KEEP TALKING."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 5: PROJECT IS A COMBINATION LOCK

"A Project is like a combination lock. To strive for project success, your job as a project manager is to find the right numbers, in the right order."

QUOTE OF THE DAY 4: RUN TOWARDS YOUR FEAR

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet." -- Nadia Comaneci

QUOTE OF THE DAY 3: YOUR DELAY, MY EMERGENCY

A DELAY ON YOUR END, DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN AN EMERGENCY ON MY END