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The Hard Side of Change Management

Change management is an approach to transition individuals, teams, and organisations to a desired future state. For over three decades, academics, managers, and consultants, realising that transforming organisations is difficult, have avoided the subject.

My Way or the Highway

Major organisational change is profoundly difficult because the structure, culture, and routines of companies often…

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Project Manager or Scapegoat?

Big Project Failures Claim Their Victims in Spectacular Fashion

You’ve just been assigned a high visibility failing project and you’re working round-the-clock to get the work to the client on time, despite the fact that the job bears barely any resemblance to the project you initially discussed. The scope keeps creeping, the risk and issue alerts are coming in thick and fast, the project is…

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Construction Begins on Sip Sports Center in Suzhou

Construction of the SIP Sports Centre has started in the Chinese city of Suzhou. The sports centre in Suzhou Industrial Park was designed by Ham burg’s star architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partner, and has been scheduled for completion in 2017.

The sports venue will be surrounded by residential quarters, a hotel and a leisure district offering community sports facilities and public spaces.

The…

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Old Montague Street Student Accommodation

London needs over 30,000 new homes every year for the next 15 years to keep up with the demand from the people who wish to live and work in the city. Despite good housing output, figures published by the GLA show that there is a huge deficit in the number of affordable homes being produced, particularly larger homes.

A shortage of bricks is often cited as the main reason why developers…

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50 Quotes to Inspire Successful Leadership

Most people believe that the key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. Do you agree? The answer to that question, it seems, lies in whether the goal is to get others to work from a place of compliance or from a place of commitment which underlines the difference between influential leadership and authoritative leadership.

Working within an influential leadership model, committed…

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Pocket Living in London: Micro-flats Gain Favour as the Answer to Big City Urban Density

Young Londoners have revealed that they would rather rent a tiny studio flat than a large property in a less desirable area.

We Haven’t Reached the Density of Hong Kong. But We’re Heading That Way

London’s population is expected to reach 10m by 2031 from its current 8.3m. London needs an estimated 49,000 new homes a year. This is not a new phenomenon, architects have confronted population…

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13 Basic Facts You Should Know about Modular Homes

Modular homes sometimes referred to as “factory built construction”,  encompass a category of housing built in sections typically at a factory location.  These houses must conform to local and regional building codes for the country the buyer plans to situate the dwelling. 

Just like site built housing, construction teams build modular homes to last and increase in value over time.  As the…

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Top 10 Project Management Myths Debunked

Since the dawn of time, mankind has used myths to make sense of the uncertainty that surrounds us. In the early 1990s a lot of people believed that project management was the best kept secret in business.  However, because project management was not seen as a prevailing profession at that time, it suffered from a lack of awareness which was in a sense, a double edged sword. Those who were…

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5 of the World's Most Spectacular Megaprojects

5 of the World’s Most Spectacular Megaprojects

We seem to be entering a new age of megaprojects as countries around the world mobilise the private sector to invest heavily in multi-billion or sometimes multi-trillion dollar infrastructure initiatives.

Megaprojects (sometimes also spelled “mega projects”) are very large investment projects and require care in the project development process to reduce any possible optimism bias and strategic…

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Axelos CEO Peter Hepworth in the Spotlight

Project Journal had the privilege of interviewing AXELOS previous CEO Peter Hepworth. Peter provided us with an insight into his role and AXELOS as a whole in October 2015.

AXELOS CEO Peter Hepworth

Peter joined AEXLOS as CEO in July 2013 and was previously Managing Director for Activision Blizzard  a $400 million turnover and $150million EBIT business.  In 2014, Activision Blizzard was the fifth…

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6 Project Management Taboos You Should Break

A taboo is an activity that is forbidden or sacred based on religious beliefs or morals. Breaking a taboo is extremely objectionable in society as a whole. We have isolated six project management taboos that are common in PM discussions.

The upside of understanding and acting on these most common project management taboos is tremendous. Not only will your project success rate increase, you’ll…

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35 Conflict Management Quotes

Conflict happens. These quotes seem to suggest that it is how you handle the situation, your attitude going into the conflict, and the conflict resolution that matters.

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me — Miles Davis

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped — African proverb

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future — Paul Boese

If war is the…

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Taking the Right Path to Good Agile Implementations 1) A Wise Man Said Only Fools Rush In Companies that goes nuts for agile because they know they have to deliver faster and for less cost to keep up with competitors may be making a big mistake and face a collapse of their efforts.

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9 Architectural Projects That Busted the Bank Vaults

Since the beginning of recorded time, construction projects have always been a major part of history. In fact, grandiose construction projects to erect the architectural visions of Pharaohs, Kings, Rulers, and Monarchs was used as a way to put the wealth and power of leaders on display for all of the people their lands to see.

Not surprisingly, all of these projects came at a great cost to the…

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Modular Penthouse, Wandsworth High Street Generous glazed areas and therefore naturally lit apartments with fine views out are an extremely desirable part of the modern home.

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Everyone Is a Project Manager — Yes, That Means You

Times are changing, and so are the ways people work and collaborate.

When you think about the term “project manager” who and what comes to mind? The Apprentice? Your manager? A colleague in a another team perhaps or an individual who literally has “Project Manager” on a business card, or email signature?

Well, it may not be part of your job title, and you may even struggle to find the words in…

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Is Information Overload Real?

Is information overload real? Absolutely. Though the real danger is the flood of potentially meaningful information we let in.

‘Infobesity’ – the Over-consumption of Information – Could Be Raising the Stress Levels of Almost Half of British Office Workers, Reveals a UK Report.

To be clear, even though consuming 35 billion bits of data daily is substantial, that‘s not what’s creating the crisis in…