Chief: Go Green
According to today’s Portsmouth Herald, in an article by Rich Beuchesne headlined “Chief: Go Green”, Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui, of the Surui tribe indigenous to the Amazon Rain Forest, is on a high...
View ArticleServing the environment – and serving yourself
At last week’s PMI North America Congress, we were lucky enough to be at sponsor DeVry (Keller) University’s booth signing our new book and getting to chat with many project managers about Green...
View ArticlePresident Clinton, Project Manager?
You may have often heard said that the Project Manager is like the CEO of their project. You may also have heard that a President is like the CEO of the country. So, it doesn’t take too much linking...
View ArticleCounting on you…
So, they tell us today is “Pi Day“, in honor of the constant Π which represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, which works out to be approximately...
View ArticleHockey Schtick
It’s Stanley Cup Finals time. Hockey is a rough game, and hits and checking are part of the game. In this posting you see a photo of the Bruins’ Nathan Horton, who took a vicious blind-side hit...
View ArticleThe Sky is Falling – May be time to heed the warnings
We’ve tend to stay neutral when it comes to the global climate change debate, although we have tried to arm you with the information we believed you, as project managers, need to make sure you can take...
View ArticleThe sky is not falling. But…
We focus on projects, project management, the connection between sustainability and project management, projects, and most importantly, YOU – the project manager. That focus includes ecological but...
View ArticlePeople, Planet, Profit – and Pulpit?
A new book by Katherine K. Wilkinson explores the changing relationship of evangelists and the realities of climate change. The relationship is not trivial. Evangelical Christians make up about a...
View ArticleNot one for the refrigerator
Remember when you came home with a great report card, which had great grades – maybe all As – but also a great prognosis for what expectations the teachers had for you in the future? Remember that?...
View ArticleTomorrow, tomorrow…
You can bet your bottom dollar on tomorrow… In the Broadway musical Annie, the lead character, sings: The sun’ll come out… Tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There’ll be sun! Just thinkin’...
View ArticleThe not-so slippery slope of climate change
Living, as we do, in the United States’ far northeast area – called New England, we’ve done our fair share of skiing, shoveling, snowblowing, driving in the snow, getting into some really nice...
View ArticleA wallop to your wallet?
We’re going to make this a short post with a strong request. The post is to refer you to a (short) story about a (big) topic we’ve talked about for a while, which is that wherever one stands on...
View ArticleAll the world loves a … deadline
A short op-ed piece in today’s Boston Globe caught our eye as an example – another example, perhaps the ‘biggest’ yet – of the intersection of sustainability and project management. The PMBOK(R) Guide...
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