Books

PofE 026: A Discussion With Gerald Kendall On Risk Management

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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown." -George Shinn

Gerald Kendall and Kathleen Austin's book "Advanced Multi-Project Management" confronts the critical reason why projects fail and why, according to the Standish Group, project success is not improving. This book addresses the key concerns that senior management has with implementing the right projects at the right time with the right resources to take advantage of a strategic opportunity while at the same time providing guidance to the organization's program managers who are overworked and fighting for resources to complete the project that they already have under way.  The book highlights key processes required to control the flow of active projects, develop a correct project network, implement a strategic buffer, establish a single project priority system, enable faster execution and provide a consistent methodology for recovering projects to ensure investment benefits are achieved.

 

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PofE 024: Warning! Following Benjamin Franklin’s Productivity Secrets Will Increase Your Effectiveness!

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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Dale Carnegie 

His Life

* Born on January 17, 1706 (or according to O.S. January 6, 1705) [Link to Old Style below. Very interesting.] Died April 17, 1790.

* Benjamin was the eighth child of his father’s second wife, the tenth boy, and the last boy among seventeen children. (Four from the first wife, Josiah Franklin, and thirteen from the second wife.)

Innovation

PofE 023: Are You An Innovator?

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“Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.”

–Mike Vance

His Life

  • Born May 6, 1870 in San Jose, California.
  • Parents were immigrants from Favale di Malvaro in Italy.
  • Went to Heald College in San Francisco.
  • Started out as a produce broker, commission merchant, and a produce dealer for Santa
    Clara Valley farms. He was extremely successful.
  • Was able to retire at the age of 31.
Leadership

PofE 022: How Stephen Covey Helped Me Achieve A Work-Life Balance

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"The effect of one upright individual is incalculable." -Oscar Arias

"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally"  -Lao-Tzu

 

His Life

  • Born October 24, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Grandson of Stephen Mack Covey, founder of Little America.
  • Earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in business administration from the University of
    Utah.
Continuous Improvement

PofE 021: Andrew Carnegie’s Secret of Success: Never Stop Learning

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"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way." John Stuart Mill

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His Challenges

  • Born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 25, 1835.
  • His family and their neighbors lived together in a one-main-room house.
  • Was educated about Scottish heroes by his uncle.
  • In 1848, the Carnegies moved to Alleghany, PA in search of a better life.
  • At the age of 13, his first job was as a bobbin boy 12 hours a day, 6 days a week at a cotton factory. He earned $1.20 per week.
  • Urged by his uncle in 1850, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy for the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, receiving $2.50 per week.