Workmageddon: Project Management

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Lots of things go into making a business work, and every company will have its own practices and routines to deal with continuing marketplace challenges. However, one skillset seems particularly valuable for entrepreneurs who face well-defined, individual challenges: project management. It is the application of tools, know-how, and skills needed to accomplish project activities, satisfy the stakeholders, and make a little money, too.

Tracy “Ice T” Marrow was, bar none, the best project manager in the history of hip-hop. He brought organization and planning to everything he did in a way that had never been seen before—and has not been repeated since in the genre. While he attributes a lot of it to his training in the U.S. Army, something says that Ice T was just uniquely suited to bring order into the chaotic worlds he chose to inhabit.

Ice T stood up a respectable prostitution ring (relatively speaking) in Hawaii by defining his objectives, figuring the scope of the operation, and understanding the deliverables he and his women had to produce. He created one of the most effective smash-and-grab gangs in Los Angeles, which hauled in hundreds of thousands of dollars in loot from dozens of successful individual jobs by creating of a set of plans to help guide his team through every step of the …

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