Thursday 20 December 2012

Why do we continue?

An analogy to your job as a project manager could be the following:

"Every morning your boss calls to offer you a new job, an unknown place with unknown deadlines and unknown partners. Without hesitation you say ok and thrusts you into the day. Each evening you will come deadly exhausted home to your family who have become accustomed to, you never get home on time. The morning after your boss is calling ... "

Canadian Martin Cobb's paradox of 1995 is about the same: "We know why projekter fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?” David Hillson tries to answer it in this months Risk briefing here.

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