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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function - Albert A. Bartlett, The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet, University of Colorado, Boulder, Center for Science, Mathematics & Computer Education Read more →

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There is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. - Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other Tales Read more →

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The zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points…have in turn divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for... Read more →

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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time — Andre Gide Read more →

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Fear is an Incomplete Teacher - John Luke Picard Read more →

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the... Read more →

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An individual who is observed to be inconstant to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his own unsteadiness and... Read more →

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At what level of risk are you willing to NOT know the probability of completing on or before a date, at or below a cost, with the needed capabilities? Without estimates, in the presence of uncertainty, there can be no... Read more →

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There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs - Thomas Sowell And also remember, any solution needs to start with the problem. For the solution to have any chance of success, the root causes of the problem need to be... Read more →

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Understanding first principles is the basis of all understanding - Dr. Kaye Remington, PGCS, Canberra, Australia, August 14, 2018 Kaye goes on to say - The problem comes first, then information and knowledge is developed to reveal the attributes of... Read more →

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Here's some quotes from Damon Hancock, Samsung Australia, speaking about the challenge of big infrastructure at PGCS 2018 Pick your partner well. Bad partners bring bad fortune. Some uncomfortable conversations today will save much pain later. Context drives behaviour. Inadequate... Read more →

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What punishment can and ought to be inflicted on a man, if such an one there be, who, holding an office of importance, prostitutes that office to the purpose party; and thereby hazards the peace, happiness, and prosperity of his... Read more →

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Principles are Timeless. Practices and Processes are Fads When someone suggests a process or practice, ask what principle is this based on? Hear none? Use with caution. There may be anecdotal evidence that the practice or process is useful for... Read more →

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In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Managing Projects Like a Sailor

We Can Control the Ship and Sails, But Not The Wind and Waves All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty. Uncertainty creates risk to the success of the project. Uncertainty comes in only two forms: Epistemic uncertainty, which... Read more →

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln Read more →

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The pursuit of operational effectiveness is seductive because it is concrete and actionable. Caught up in the race for operational effectiveness, many managers simply do not understand the need to have a strategy. – Dr. Michael E. Porter – Professor... Read more →

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Key to Success? Keep going till you get it right. Then keep going further till you can't get it wrong. Read more →

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Art is a game played against chaos, death, and entropy. It asserts and reasserts those values which hold off dissolution; it rediscovers, generation by generation, what is necessary to humanness. - John Gardner Read more →

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If I’m manipulating you, I’m trying to get you to do something that’s gonna benefit me. If I’m leading you, I’m trying to get you to do something that’s gonna benefit you, the team, that’s gonna benefit the mission. —... Read more →