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Surrounding Yourself with Pragmatists

07.11.2017 by Sandra Hoskins //

As a project manager, your team is often a group of people who don’t understand the goal and have come to the ‘party’ late.  Many of them will have been…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Golden Nuggets, Lessons, lessons learned, project

The Keys to Our Success: Lessons Learned

05.29.2013 by Sandra Hoskins //

We are published.  Late last fall, a group of 25 dedicated project managers were tapped to contribute to a book on the most important lesson that we had learned as…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Lessons, lessons learned, project, project management

What Wise Project Leaders Do!

08.27.2011 by Sandra Hoskins //

I am in south Florida today attending a conference hosted by John Maxwell and his team of dedicated people. In late June, I made a decision to become part of…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Drive By Project Management, expectation management, John Maxwell, Lessons, lessons learned, PMP, project, project management, thinking out of the box, transformational leadership

Lessons from Underground: Safety Matters.

10.13.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

I am watching the rescue of the miners in Chile.  It struck me that I had seen this before and just like this, it could have been prevented.  I have…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Lessons, lessons learned, management, Mining, Ownership, project

Drive By Project Management Moment – There Is No Time Management

09.05.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

You have to manage your time better. You can hear the drum beat in your head. I should have made better use of my time today. I should have… I…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // conservation, DIRTFT, Drive by, Drive By Project Management, expectation management, Lessons, management, project, thinking out of the box

Avoiding ‘Drive By Project Management’

08.24.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

I was talking with a colleague today.  We are working on a project and our discussion turned to the mechanics and practice of project management.  We are collaborating on a…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Cartoons, DIRTFT, Drive by, humor, humour, management, PMP, project, thinking out of the box

You might be a Project Manager, if

07.03.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

I am sitting in the Minneapolis airport thinking about projects that I have worked on and it occurs to me that if Jeff Foxworthy had been a project manager that…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // DIRTFT, expectation management, lessons learned, project, project management, thinking out of the box

The Opposite of Goldplating is?

04.27.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

The opposite of gold-plating in the airline industry is ‘anaemic programs for customers’. Last week, I had my first flight this year on the ‘new’ Delta.  I was sure that…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Customer Expectations, Customer Service, Delta, Gold-plating, Golden Nuggets, NWA, project, project management

Expectation Management: Reading is optional

04.16.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

Today has been one of those days when my sense of humour has taken several hits.  It can be very entertaining most days but Murphy has taken possession of our…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // expectation management, Golden Nuggets, manners, patience, project, project management

Lessons from Marvin the Martian: The Equipment is Faulty

04.14.2010 by Sandra Hoskins //

Lesson Number 2 from Marvin the Martian.  Marvin was totally focussed on his goal.  To meet his goal, he had at his disposal sophisticated equipment that relied on a simple and easily…

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Categories // Sandra's Blog Tags // Cartoons, Golden Nuggets, Lessons, project, project management, thinking out of the box

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