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: April 2011
Ethics of Excellence
I have always believed that you can learn something from anything, if you approach it with the right mind-set. The question I have is this – should we feel able to use everything as a source of learning? More explicitly, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics
Tagged Bushido, Conspiracy, ethics, excellence, Hagakure, Handling Resistance, project management, Shackleton, Wanssee
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Brilliant Project Leader: Shackleton
Brilliant Project Leader will be my second book about project management (the first will be Risk Happens!). It will also be my fourth book for Prentice Hall’s “Brilliant” series. I finished planning it and have started writing it this week … Continue reading
More Samurai Wisdom for Projects – Hagakure Part 3
Here are three more chunks of wisdom from Hagakure, the book of the Samurai. You can find my earlier posts at: Part 1 Part 2 Control versus Flexibility “Fish cannot live where the water is too clear. But where there … Continue reading
Posted in Attitude, Hagakure, project management
Tagged control, Hagakure, project, project management, project manager, reputation, risk, samurai
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Is EPOxy the Project Management Methodology for the coming decade?
Agile is ten years old – or at least the Agile Manifesto was published in 2001. And some would say it is coming of age. In some contexts it is used successfully every day and in others, work is underway … Continue reading
