A staple of “green” management is that any project that tends to kill off significant numbers of animals – even animals that are dangerous, or ones nobody has ever heard of, like Gre ...
Driving into work yesterday I listened to yet another story on what I've started calling BP's "Nightmare in the Gulf." This is the story of a disaster that just doesn't see ...
As I wrap up my month-long eye-roll on the subject of “green” project management, I must admit that the people at Gantthead have been very good sports about my playing the role of curmudge ...
The 800-mile Alaska Pipeline was a project without a plan or method. This remarkable story presents some valuable lessons from the biggest and most expensive private enterprise in American history.
The BP oil spill instantly became a crisis management disaster with devastating repercussions. What went wrong, and what lessons can we take from the tragedy?
The BP oil spill instantly became a crisis management disaster with devastating repercussions. What went wrong, and what lessons can we take from the tragedy? As our two-part article concludes, we look at more of the major management mistakes.
Recent projects aim to provide a solution to power outages by treating energy less like a bottomless ATM and more like a savings account--storing it when we don’t need it so we can spend it when we do.
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