by Leonie McCarthy | Oct 10, 2016 | Project Delivery, Project Management, Team & People
While time is a finite resource, energy is infinite, although it may not always feel that way. That is because it doesn’t just happen by itself, you have to establish rituals to build energy. Individuals and businesses that understand this succeed and as a...
by Leonie McCarthy | Sep 4, 2016 | Project Delivery, Project Management, Team & People
Whilst on a practice hike preparing for a trip to the Kokoda track earlier this year; I overheard one of the teens on the hike, who had done that particular track before, relate that the last kilometre of our day would be the longest, there was a collective sigh of...
by Leonie McCarthy | Aug 18, 2016 | Project Delivery, Project Management
“Not all meetings are a waste of time, some of them get cancelled.” This is one of my dad’s favourites and definitely one that I can hear in the back of my head when I am in malfunctioning meeting. The numbers are not pretty: “In the US alone we “enjoy” 11...
by Leonie McCarthy | Apr 21, 2016 | Processes, Project Delivery, Project Management
When you start a project typically you make a project plan. Problem with planning projects, and this is the problem with all plans really, at the time of planning you only know what you know right then. The future is unknown. So, we could say that to a certain extent...