The Four Dharmas Of Project Management

This post is intended as my Grande Finale of 2008. That year, I learned that you cannot jump from the PMBoK directly to topics like “mental flexibility” and “emotional intelligence”. A path to “project enlightenment” has to be defined. With this article I am outlining a training route, using the Buddhist “Turnings of The Wheel Of Dharma” as a metaphor.

Thin-slicing Project Managers

In his book “Blink” Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term “thin-slicing”. “… our ability to gauge what is really important from a very narrow period of experience. In other words, spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones.” (Wikipedia) This “thin slice of reality” is a pattern of all things …