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What the BP Disaster Can Teach Us About Management |
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| "A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for." |
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| What the BP Disaster Can Teach Us About Management |
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Disasters mark a spot in time upon which those directly affected and the greater society can reflect. The BP oil spill is an event of that magnitude. From the rising action and terminus of the event, there are lessons to be learned about management. Read more in this white paper by CAI analyst David Gritz. (6 pages) |
| Click here to read "What the BP Disaster Can Teach Us About Management"! |
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| Why Good Projects Fail Anyway |
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As many of us already know from experience, big projects fail, despite good intentions and lots of traditional project management record keeping. In this article, Nadim Matta and and Ronald Ashkenas recommend a technique they call rapid-results initiatives to stave off the seemingly inevitable disappointments and disasters. (2 pages) |
| Click Here to Read "Why Good Projects Fail Anyway"! |
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| Five Leadership Lessons from the BP Oil Spill |
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t will be months, if not years, before the full impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill will be fully understood — environmentally, commercially, and politically. In this respect, and the fact that the disaster will have a deep effect on the Unites States psyche, President Obama was correct to draw comparisons with the situation in the Gulf of Mexico and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. That said, it is hard to draw any more meaningful comparisons between the two disasters — unless we consider the glaring differences in the quality of leadership displayed during the last two months. What have we learned? (2 pages) |
| Click Here to Read "Five Leadership Lessons from the BP Oil Spill"! |
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The Risk Factor |
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