Dr Mike Clayton
Mike is an author and speaker, specialising in Projects, Risk, Organisational change, and the science of influence and decision-making.
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Change Management Maturity – Needed Soon
Project management maturity models have become commonplace. Far rarer is a maturity model for Change Management. Why is Change Management Maturity rarely Defined? The answer, I think, is because so few organisations actually demonstrate maturity in this arena. Managing change … Continue reading
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Cycle Times and the Monitor and Control Loop
In my last blog: “Project Multi-tasking: the Multi-Tasking Fallacy” I discussed the need to allocate chunks of time to each task you are working on – and to each project you are managing. Good Project Control The post was primarily … Continue reading
Project Multi-tasking: The Multi-tasking Fallacy
This week, I delivered the three seminars on Practical Project Management on a short speaking tour. Some great questions came up. One of my favourite touched on an old hobby horse of mine: Multi-tasking. Managing Several Projects at the Same … Continue reading
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Diving into Change
Change is threatening Change is threatening (see my earlier post: “Why is Change so Scary?”). There is no doubt that, for most of us, keeping things as they are, is comfortable and easy. So we are tempted to dip our … Continue reading
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Simple but not Easy
“The one thing” One thing I have learned has been more valuable to me than any other insight in life. And I learned it as a result of a simple question at a pub, a fair few years back now. … Continue reading
