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Jan 8
A status report can explain a project perfectly and still leave it exactly where it is.
Information is not progress. Decisions are.
If nothing changed after the report, it wasn’t control — it was narration.
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Jan 7
Why Most Projects Don’t Fail Loudly
Most projects don’t collapse in a dramatic moment. They don’t end with a crisis meeting or a single bad decision.
They fail quietly.
They fail in the weeks where no one makes a call. In the meetings where everyone agrees and nothing changes. In...
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Jan 2
“Why Most Projects Don’t Need Better Tools”
Most failing projects don’t have a tooling problem. They have a thinking problem.
Teams add software when they should be making decisions. They introduce dashboards when they should be clarifying ownership. They automate noise instead of...
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Dec 31
A New Year Doesn’t Fix a Project
Every January, the world gets a “reset”.
New plans. New language. But the same unresolved problems.
The calendar changing doesn’t create momentum in projects. Decisions do.
Most projects don’t stall because of complexity. They stall because people...
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Dec 30
If It Can Be Dealt With Now, Deal With It
One of the simplest rules I apply on complex projects is this:
If it can be dealt with now, deal with it. If it doesn’t have a true predecessor dependency, do it now.
Most project delays aren’t caused by critical path constraints. They’re...
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