Sometimes you shift to automatic pilot. When your brain is tired, you react instantly to information. Every stimulus gets a fast and automatic response. Fear locks your brain too. “Our people, good. Other people, bad.” “Mac, good. Windows, bad.” “Same, good. Different, bad.” This “automatic pilot” is based upon our mental model that happens to …
When I see a senior citizen in the US wear mint-green polyester trousers, I immediately think: “playing golf in Florida”. Sorry about that. My bad. When we read information about someone, we create an opinion, a context, a mental image of this person. Elements like nationality, religion, gender, age and occupation are cues used for …
In this episode of Project Shrink video chat I’m talking with Alberto DomÃnguez, PMP. Alberto works as a Software Project Manager in Colombia and is author of the blog Simple Projectz. We talk about project management in Colombia. If you are doing international projects you must check out the interview. You can view the video …
Seth Godin has created a list of business cliches, language you hear to often in companies. It inspired me to the image below. You know any PM cliches?