by Leonie McCarthy | Jul 10, 2018 | Project Management
I hate waiting. I’m bad at queues, being on hold, traffic that’s not moving, and anything else that feels like a waste of time. Being ready to go for a meeting with only a few of the meeting participants in the room is frustrating, and something I put effort into...
by Leonie McCarthy | Jun 19, 2018 | Project Management, Team & People
“In good decision making, frugality matters,” says Malcolm Gladwell;taking complex problems, and reducing them to the key levers that help us choose is a critical skill. Getting to the heart of the decision, however, isn’t always so easy! I was recently...
by Leonie McCarthy | Mar 9, 2018 | Project Delivery, Project Management
We’ve reached ‘that stage’ in the project, the learning curve is steep. Last week one of my team members was showing people how to open multiple browser windows and explaining that this was not a feature of the browser-based system they’re training on but rather of...
by Leonie McCarthy | Sep 21, 2017 | Project Management, Software selection
Chatting to someone I had just met at a business breakfast, we were ‘finding common ground’ that you do when you first meet. She shared that her organisation is undergoing a significant software change project. They have appointed a vendor (software...
by Leonie McCarthy | Oct 10, 2016 | Project Delivery, Project Management, Team & People
While time is a finite resource, energy is infinite, although it may not always feel that way. That is because it doesn’t just happen by itself, you have to establish rituals to build energy. Individuals and businesses that understand this succeed and as a...
by Leonie McCarthy | Sep 4, 2016 | Project Delivery, Project Management, Team & People
Whilst on a practice hike preparing for a trip to the Kokoda track earlier this year; I overheard one of the teens on the hike, who had done that particular track before, relate that the last kilometre of our day would be the longest, there was a collective sigh of...