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A couple of years ago, I spent a whole year on an assignment in Mexico. This was a great chance not only to learn a new culture, but also to juxtapose it with my own and recalibrate some of my beliefs. Spending the past few weeks in this place so dear to my heart helped me to crystalize those experiences. So, I decided to share the glimpses of México Mágico with you as a little gift to celebrate the beginning of the new year....

Is there a better alternative than just SMART goals to assure you are on the best path to making next year count? The answer is “definitely yes”! Today we will investigate together how thinking “Process” can help you define really SMART goals and what type of monitoring will be the most useful for this purpose....

Did you look at the calendar and suddenly realize that not only it is December already, but it’s also this time of the year again when you have to prepare for annual discussions and set goals for the next one, for you and your team? And all that right amidst the impending Christmas-carousel and the end of the year madness… Let’s have a chat on SMART-goals today and in the next article we’ll see how thinking “Process” can help you out…...

Welcome back to the Managerial zoo – a section where we look at all sorts of amazing animals that populate the reality of a project and change manager. Most of them have never walked the Earth. This is why giving them a place to live is so crucial. And where else when not in this cozy blog? Giraphant, our first fosterling, will be joined today by a fellow cloven-hooved. So, without further ado – please meet the Project Horse, whose hour strikes when it’s exactly November o’clock!...

Did it happen again – a project started in a very promising way, the initial milestones were passed with flying colors, and then something started going hideously wrong? Don’t lose your hope, there is a way out of this vicious cycle! This is exactly what we are going to talk about today....

Do you have a sneaky suspicion that sometimes behind seemingly the most innocent standard phrases in project management there lies a dark chasm of not yet verbalized issues? I decided to take the looming Halloween as an excuse to give some time and space to the black humor that hides in the shades of such phrases in the most sinister way....