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Posted by Verarius | 10.05.2024
This week I had a great opportunity to visit the OMR Festival in Hamburg and my head is still buzzing from all the impulses. While the impressions are still fresh, I decided to bring them to paper as I thought the insights were quite illuminating and applicable in many areas....
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Posted by Verarius | 26.04.2024
Have you recently been taken off guard by “I have a small project for you”, only to realize after a couple of discussions that what you are discussing is not a project, but rather an initiative? This is a classic situation that often leads to cumbersome misunderstandings and inefficiencies. This is why drawing the line and distinguishing between a project, an initiative and a task, for that matter, is frequently needed – so let’s delve together into it....
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Posted by Verarius | 12.04.2024
A couple of days ago, this cozy blog reached its first anniversary. I'm delighted to share that I've remained faithful to my commitment of posting every two weeks, come rain or shine. Some articles have been better, some could have been better, but they have been coming sure as eggs is eggs. Making this happen meant building a new habit. While the memories are still fresh and the example is very much alive indeed, let’s see what heuristics have proved to be helpful....
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Posted by Verarius | 29.03.2024
Just as this blog entry in form of a book recommendation for “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates” was finalized for publication, a devastating news became public – the author of the book in focus, Frans de Waal, had deceased. Primatologist Frans de Waal has contributed immensely to helping us, humans, see our species in a much broader context of our fellow primates, and also taking ourselves a little bit less seriously. As the Times journal put in 2007 when including Frans de Waal into its list of 100 individuals most impactful in transforming the world with their power, talent or moral example, “we may accept that we are descended from apes, but it takes the likes of de Waal to remind us that we haven't traveled that far”. These heartrending circumstances make me advocate for reading his books yet more adamantly. Thus, I rewrote the entry in the hope to spark more desire to delve into the fascinating world Frans de Waal opened for us....
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Posted by Verarius | 15.03.2024
Terms such as approach, methodology, method, and tool are the key concepts in project management. Sometimes they are treated as interchangeable and used as synonyms, which might save time but is not always a good idea as in some cases it brings confusion and thus impedes communication and understanding. At the same time, the clarity of communication remains one of the most essential elements for the successful realization of a project, so it makes even more sense to revisit the lingo....
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Posted by Verarius | 01.03.2024
Is your project two days before the launch and you seem to be the only one aware let alone excited about it? Are you one step from a major system migration, yet you keep hearing “but we didn’t know it’s happening this century”… Lack of communication is probably the most frequent issue one runs into. But is it really the general lack of it or is there something else to it? Let us talk today about the role communication plays in your stakeholder management and engagement in the context of a change project....
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