Category: Leadership

When your Projects are late: Start them later

When projects are late, we tend to start them earlier. Yet, this type of project management makes matters worse. Find out how to reduce lead time, increase your reliability and improve on productivity by understanding the harbour master principle. Please make suggestions for articles to deconstruct in the comments section or via email to mail@markup.news… Read more »

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Project Management: Top 1 Mistake (and an Uncomfortable Truth)

They’re dozens of checklists out there on how to conduct successful project management. You will also find a myriad of mistakes to be avoided. But you rarely get taught about this very crucial ingredient of a project’s success. Referenced article from the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2021/03/for-an-agile-… Please make suggestions for articles to deconstruct in the… Read more »

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Where Simon Sinek gets it wrong with company values

Don’t follow names, follow logic. Simon Sinek is one of the most popular management and leadership thinkers. But when he talks about company values he makes three majorly flawed assumptions. This episode dissects his line of reasoning regarding company values using a talk he gave and published on YouTube. Video by Simon Sinek “How should… Read more »

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Don’t ever try changing your Corporate Culture like this

If you want to change your corporate culture or core values for the better you are likely to cause more harm than good. Although common wisdom and mainstream management advice suggests that an organizational culture is an object at our disposal, our daily experience should teach us what solid social science has known for decades:… Read more »

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