by Günter Richter | Oct 30, 2011 | Career, Consulting
Following on from part 2, the next part of our series continues in a similar vein with another three rules of project management. Here they are. Rule 7: ‘What is not on paper has not been said’. Although many of us believe the art of chivalry is still alive and well...
by Günter Richter | Oct 20, 2011 | Career, Consulting
Part 1 of ‘Smashing the Rules of Project Management’ introduced the idea that many tongue-in-cheek touches of sarcasm and analogies of project management might actually contain an element of truth, maybe even wisdom. Three rules in, this certainly seems to be the...
by Günter Richter | Oct 18, 2011 | Career, Consulting
Quite a while ago someone mailed me a document titled ’50 Rules of Project Management’. The ‘rules’ are all tongue-in-cheek and consist mainly of analogies and sarcasm. As the years go by, I gladly share these rules with both aspiring and experienced project managers....
by Günter Richter | Mar 1, 2011 | Career, Consulting
It’s been seen many times before. Salaried people – especially in specialist areas –make the transition to the Consulting profession. This is sometimes a planned career move or sometimes the result of an unplanned event, like a redundancy. Unplanned, by the employee,...
by Günter Richter | Feb 15, 2011 | Career, Consulting
By no means am I a hardened traveller or jet setter, but I have been doing a weekly trip up north for the last few months, and this unfortunately necessitates me being exposed to fellow travellers. Not all of them are bad of course, but there are certain behaviours...
by Günter Richter | Jul 28, 2010 | Career
There have been a few people that I have worked with during my career that I have not been able to ‘place’ – by this I mean, understand what drives and motivates them, what their goals are, their lack of conscience, and more importantly, how they...
