Leadership and Environment: The Leader’s Role

A few years ago, I inherited a project team that just was not performing very well.  They barely made deadlines and their work while passable was certainly not inspiring. They were content with the status quo and the motivation to do better was just not there. After a...

Develop the habit of documenting “Lessons Learned”

Most of the Project Teams that I work with outside of the military agree that they should maintain a “lessons learned” database and use those “lessons learned” on future projects. Of course, when I ask if their organizations actually collect, maintain and disseminate...