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Haiku for project managers - failure

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I'm not a machine /

Constant full capacity /

Will ensure failure


Posted on: January 27, 2016 11:59 PM | Permalink

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PANKAJ KUMAR JOSHI General Manager| Transrail Lighting Limited Nainital, Uttrakhand, India
Machine can also fail ;)



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Bruce Wilkinson MBA, PMP Expert Project Manager / Trustworthy Executive Assistant / Business Coach| goBRUCE Business Services Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
Thanks Robert. Always good to remember that we are indeed human. We can push at full capacity for a while, but need an occasional reboot to let the CPU cool down and clear our RAM.

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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I agree with you Bruce - Very Well said with an emphasis on REBOOT.

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SANKAR HALDAR SENIOR MANAGER - PROJECT CONTROL| GS ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Rob, if you don't mind , would you like to rewrite the last line like -

"Will ensure failure SUCCESSFULLY".

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Robert Prol Project Manager| KPMG LLP East Sandwich, Ma, United States
Changing the haiku would be scope creep. A haiku requires exactly 5 syllables in enlist line, so it'd no longer be haiku. (-;

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