Untamed Wilds » project management http://thomaswebb.net Human ecology, human action and human nature Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:34:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Speeding and Project Management http://thomaswebb.net/2008/02/05/speeding-and-project-management/ http://thomaswebb.net/2008/02/05/speeding-and-project-management/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:09:45 +0000 Thomas J. Webb http://thomaswebb.net/2008/02/05/speeding-and-project-management/ Continue reading →]]> If you speed driving somewhere, you will get there slightly quicker. In any event, of all the things you must do to get there, it’s the one you have the least power to improve (all the more reason “I was caught in traffic” is a lame excuse for being late). You have much more control over that project you were finishing at the last minute before you left, causing you to speed. Or when you woke up.

Swerving around and traffic like a hummingbird through a flowered thicket brings your driving time from 50 minutes down to 45 minutes – congratulations. Or, you could spend just 10 minutes weeding out unnecessary parts of your power point outline, saving you an hour of preparation! (“whew, I don’t have to track down a picture of an Uzbek wedding celebration!”)

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