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netra-n8tra · 7 years ago

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NAVIGATING PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN THE AEC INDUSTRY

Navigating Project Management in the AEC industry involves a series of interconnected tasks that require effective planning, execution, monitoring, and control. By following best practices and leveraging project management methodologies such as APM, SCRUM, KANBAN, or the Traditional WATERFALL Project Management Methodology, the AEC professionals can successfully deliver complex projects while meeting stakeholder expectations and achieving project objectives.

As an architectural manager with a Master of Architecture degree and an architectural engineering degree from reputable institutes, having experience in project and design management for large-scale commercial facilities, multi-story offices, and high-rise administration buildings, I can provide the necessary artifacts to enhance project success, improve team collaboration, and effectively handle project complexities in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector.

1. Set Clear Goals and Objectives:

Define project scope, including deliverables and constraints.

Establish SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals.

Align goals with stakeholder expectations and project requirements.

Obtain buy-in from key stakeholders on project objectives.

2. Develop a Comprehensive Project Plan:

Create a detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) to organize project tasks.

Define project milestones and dependencies.

Develop a project schedule with timelines and resource allocation.

Identify risks and develop a risk management plan.

Establish a budget and financial plan for the project.

3. Foster Effective Communication:

Establish communication channels and protocols for project team members.

Hold regular project meetings to discuss progress, issues, and updates.

Use clear and concise language in all communications.

Encourage open and transparent communication among team members.

Address communication barriers and conflicts promptly.

4. Embrace Technology and Communication:

Utilize project management software for task tracking and collaboration.

Implement communication tools such as emails, instant messaging, and video conferencing.

Leverage cloud-based platforms for document sharing and version control.

Provide training and support for team members on project management tools.

Stay updated on new technologies and tools to improve project efficiency.

5. Manage Change Effectively:

Establish a change control process to evaluate and approve changes to project scope.

Communicate changes to stakeholders and assess their impact on project objectives.

Update project documentation and plans to reflect approved changes.

Monitor changes to prevent scope creep and ensure project alignment with goals.

Evaluate the risks and benefits of proposed changes before implementation.

6. Foster Collaboration and Teamwork:

Encourage team members to share ideas, feedback, and best practices.

Foster a collaborative work environment that values diversity and inclusivity.

Promote team building activities and recognize team achievements.

Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Resolve conflicts and promote a positive team culture.

7. Continuously Monitor and Evaluate Progress:

Track project performance against key performance indicators (KPIs).

Conduct regular project reviews to assess progress and identify areas for improvement.

Monitor project risks and issues and take corrective actions as needed.

Evaluate project outcomes against initial goals and objectives.

Use lessons learned to make informed decisions and optimize project performance.

By focusing on these subtasks within each point, project managers can enhance project success, improve team collaboration, and effectively manage project complexities in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

Sonetra KETH (កេត សុនេត្រា) •Architectural Manager, Project Manager, BIM Director •建築師經理, 專案經理, BIM總監 •Giám đốc kiến trúc, Giám đốc dựán, Giám đốc BIM •RMIT University Vietnam + Institute of Technology of Cambodia

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thepeacefulgarden · 2 years ago

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#responsibility #people pleasing #fawning #codependency #boundaries #stop enabling #self respect #leadership #self care #self compassion #self love #mental health #the power of no #accountability #letting go #detachment #detaching with love

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sororalice · 1 month ago

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On The Blessedness Of Leadership

A homily for the Full Moon on May 12, 2025.

Dearly Beloved,

Blessed Full Moon, dear ones. I greet you in the name of Aphrodite and the name of the Divine on this, the Full Moon in Taurus.

Times are (unfortunately) interesting. There is a new patriarch of Rome (known by most of the world as the pope) and while I always have doubts about the Roman Church’s ability to withstand the temptations of power and empire, and I have nothing but condemnation for their history of colonization, corruption, and many sexual abuse scandals and coverups, I also recognize that the new patriarch of Rome holds immense power in the spiritual lives of billions of people all over the world. He is the neck that turns the head of many, and that sort of power is not to be ignored.

And so I pray: may the Wisdom of the Divine, known by some as Holy Sophia, inform and guide the new Patriarch Leo XIV. May his heart, mind, and spirit be guided by the Good, the True, and the Beautiful throughout his reign to the benefit of all, but especially to the benefit of women, BIPOC, the poor, queer people, and the victims of poverty and violence all over the world. May he be a worthy leader. May he serve with love and virtue in the name of the Divine.

So mote it be.

As I usually do, I pulled a Tarot card while choosing the virtue I wish to speak on in this homily, and this time I pulled The Emperor. The Emperor is a powerful and deeply layered card, like all of the Major Arcana, but more than anything the card manifests a type of aggressive or martial authority. The card is associated with the Zodiac sign Aries, the cardinal sign of Fire, which is ruled by Mars and in which the Sun in exalted. It is also associated with the alchemical element Sulphur. These correspondences reveal to us a deeply fiery, aggressive, martial, and authoritative (if not authoritarian) force. Used in cartomancy and well-dignified, the card can signify a powerful, usually masculine-presenting, leader, victory in conflict, or an intense beginning to a new endeavor. Ill-dignified, this card often represents corrupted authority and the worst type of leader…the despot.

I am assuredly a fool, but I like to think that I am not stupid. I know that the issue of authority—its legitimacy, basis, and use—is the issue at the core of our world’s problems. I know that the eyes of the whole world are on America right now, desperately hoping that we pull back from the brink, that we can somehow reign in the evil—yes, evil—that has been loosed upon us and which we have loosed upon the world.

So this month I am moved to speak on that role that some of the greatest blessings and curses in human history have played. I am moved to speak on the one that comes to the front, the one that sets an example, the one who has a vision for the future and, for good or ill, is willing to do what it takes to fulfill that vision.

I am moved to speak on leadership.

I have very complex feelings about the concept of leadership. For most of my life, I have identified as some form of anarchist. For about twenty years or so, I was an anarcho-syndicalist, and now I am more or less an anarcho-communist. I believe that leadership, when legitimate, has to come from below, from the people who actually have to implement and live with the consequences of the important choices that leaders have to make.

This attitude on leadership extends to my magickal and spiritual beliefs. I believe that we are all our own spiritual authorities and that we are all responsible for the state of our own souls. While I am no longer very active in the Thelemite community, I am still a Thelemite, and at the core of Thelema is the conviction that our wills, our own free choices and the consequences that arise from those choices, are holy.

But while I hold these values, I am also forced by this aching world to accept, again and again, that leaders are a real thing. Some people want to lead, some people want to follow (though few will admit it), and very few people have the strength and the stamina to consistently refuse to do either. I have watched activist and pagan communities fall apart again and again because of a basic refusal to accept this reality. Thinking for ourselves all the time isn’t just extremely difficult, it is impossible for humans. We are social creatures and, as such, we are primed by biology to learn our behaviors from our parents and childhood communities. From birth, humans are looking for models, other people to give us cues on how to act and what to think. That is natural and normal and we should not indulge in some sort of toxic individualism or oppositional defiance that says any influence from others is somehow wrong.

So while I still cherish my desires for a bottom-up system of authority where we all fire our bosses, seize the means of production, and live in self-sufficient communities that are smaller than Dunbar’s Number and organized around common values and interwoven relationships, leaders of some sort will always be a thing. Some people are always going to be more aggressive, more willing to push their ideas and desires on others, and sometimes they will even be good at the job. There actually is such a thing as a good leader. The damage that the absence of good leaders has caused in our world is immense and speaks to the need to address that absence. It is unrealistic and childish to simply throw up our hands and say “no one should be in charge”, because if no one is in charge, if the chain of responsibility doesn’t finally end somewhere with someone, then no one can ever be held accountable. Things just sort of happen by the path of least resistance and while no one person or set of people is ever exactly “to blame”, bad things just keep happening and the most vulnerable people just keep suffering.

That is exactly what is happening now in the US…we have people who are leaders in name only because they can never be held accountable for their choices. Bad things just keep happening (and they’ve been happening since long, long before Trump) because there are no real consequences except for the victims. These people are like screeching, drunken toddlers, running around the government with swinging arms and dirty hands, and apparently no one can stop them from breaking the good plates and getting handprints on all the furniture.

Dearly beloved, if you will not accept it as an ethical justification for leadership, then for pragmatic reasons alone, for the purpose of having a chance to achieve justice and to get beyond a world of exploitation, corruption, and “good old boy networks”, accept that we must be able to hold people accountable in a constructive, healthy way. We need accountability in order to keep the vulnerable people among us safe and to make sure that bad actors don’t rise to positions of power and stay there.

For me, what it means to be a pagan is that I believe in a naturalized theology, which means that I believe that the Divine, in all of Their myriad forms, manifests Their essence and will in and through the natural world. The reality that we see throughout the natural world, including the worlds of our minds, emotions, and relationships, reveals the nature and will of the Divine. The creation points at the creator(s).

And the creation has leaders all over the place.

But nature is a crafty goddess. She hides secrets in plain sight. The leaders in nature are naturally held accountable by their own participation in the systems they lead. A queen ant is the leader of the nest in the sense that the other ants defend her and work for her benefit, even up to and including their own deaths. She is absolutely the most important single member of the nest. But if the nest fails, she dies. If she stops doing her job of eating and laying eggs, even for a short while, her hive, her children, will die. And then, in very short order, she will die.

Similarly, in a pack of wolves, the genetic parents of most of the pack—the misnamed “alphas”—are in every meaningful way the leaders. They lead movements and hunts and are treated preferentially by the pack. But if they fail their pack and that pack suffers and dies, the parents of the pack starve and their own family line may end forever.

Nature holds leaders accountable for their actions.

Now, nature has a lot of amazing, beautiful, and sometimes terrifying variety, and there are a lot of different ways we see relationships show up in our cousins among the other species on this planet. Notions of leadership like we have among humans aren’t universal by any means. But the fact that they show up in other species at all, the fact that leadership is not just a scam made up by the powerful and rich to rip the rest of us off, tells us that such a thing as virtuous leadership is possible. We can have leaders—both official and unofficial—that are good leaders. People that can help us clarify our wills and focus our aspirations. People that can help us solve problems. People that can help us thrive.

But it all falls apart when leaders cannot be held accountable. In nature, leaders depend upon those they lead and are personally invested in their lives and success. If the nest suffers, the queen suffers. If the pack suffers, the parents suffer. Thus nature teaches us the solution to our leadership problem: accountability. A direct causal connection between the welfare of the leaders and the welfare of those they lead. If our leaders thrive, we must also thrive. If we suffer, our leaders must also feel our pain.

I apologize, dear ones. Perhaps I have misnamed this homily. I set out to praise leadership and instead I have spent my time praising accountability. I must also confess that I am currently carrying a great burden related to this issue. The lack of accountability in our government, in our society, in our economy, and even in my most cherished spiritual and magickal communities, is causing so much harm to so many people that it is breaking my heart every day. And I am one of those people who are being targeted. My wife is one of those people. Friends and family all over the world are among those suffering. But even if I was safe and everyone I knew was immune from this great and ongoing suffering, so many others would not be. And that’s just not okay with me. We all deserve to thrive. I want good leaders and I believe that good leadership—virtuous leadership, in the Aristotelian sense—is possible. But without accountability, it is impossible.

I know many of you personally. I have been lucky enough to share sacred space and do magick with some of you. Some of you are leaders in our shared communities, and many more of you have it in you to be leaders. I ask you here, from my heart to yours: step up. Step forward. Speak up. Serve as ritualists. Write, create, and teach. Become. Take the reigns from those who will not be held accountable by creating a better alternative. New mages are coming to our traditions and new communities are forming every day. More tools for building and strengthening communities exist than ever before.

Use them.

So let us raise our voices and extend our hands to do the work (and the Work) that is necessary for all of us to thrive. Let us reform and repair or create and establish communities where those with power are held accountable in healthy and constructive ways. Let us reach out and take up the reigns of the imperfect world we have inherited.

Let us become leaders.

Blessed Full Moon, dear ones.

In love,

Soror Alice

Art: Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena, “Parsifal”, (1910)

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omegaphilosophia · 8 months ago

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The Relationship Between Responsibility and Power

The relationship between responsibility and power is a significant topic in philosophy, ethics, and political theory, encapsulating the idea that with greater power comes greater responsibility. This relationship explores how power, which is the ability or capacity to influence or control others and outcomes, inherently involves responsibility—the duty to act ethically, justly, and in the best interests of those affected by one’s actions.

Key Aspects of the Relationship Between Responsibility and Power:

Ethical Obligation:

Moral Duty: Those who hold power are often seen as having a moral duty to use it responsibly. This means making decisions that consider the well-being of others, the potential consequences of actions, and the ethical implications of those actions. The greater the power, the more significant the impact of one’s decisions, and thus the greater the responsibility to act ethically.

Justice and Fairness: Power carries with it the responsibility to promote justice and fairness. This includes ensuring that power is not used arbitrarily or oppressively, and that those in power are held accountable for their actions.

Accountability:

Answerability: Responsibility involves being answerable for the exercise of power. This means that those in positions of power should be transparent about their actions and decisions, and should be willing to justify them to those affected. Accountability mechanisms, such as checks and balances, are often put in place to ensure that power is exercised responsibly.

Consequences of Power: When power is misused or abused, the responsible party should face appropriate consequences. This is crucial for maintaining trust and integrity in any system where power is distributed.

Political and Social Power:

Governance: In political philosophy, the relationship between power and responsibility is fundamental to concepts of governance and leadership. Leaders are expected to use their power to serve the public good, protect rights, and promote the common welfare. Failures in these responsibilities can lead to loss of legitimacy and authority.

Social Influence: Individuals or groups with social power (e.g., celebrities, influencers, or institutions) also bear responsibility for how their words and actions influence public opinion, social norms, and behaviors. This includes the ethical responsibility to avoid spreading misinformation or promoting harmful ideologies.

Power Dynamics:

Imbalances of Power: When there are significant imbalances of power, the responsibility to act ethically becomes even more pronounced. Those with greater power have a duty to ensure that they do not exploit or oppress those with less power. This principle is central to discussions of social justice, human rights, and equity.

Empowerment: Responsibility also involves the obligation to empower others, particularly those who are marginalized or disadvantaged. This can mean sharing power, enabling others to make decisions, and creating conditions where all individuals can exercise their rights and responsibilities.

Philosophical Perspectives:

Spiderman Principle ("With great power comes great responsibility"): Popularized by the Spider-Man comics, this phrase encapsulates the ethical maxim that those who wield significant power must do so with a strong sense of responsibility. It reflects the idea that power should be used for the greater good, rather than personal gain.

Existentialist Views: Existentialist philosophers, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, emphasize that individuals are responsible for the freedom and choices they possess. Power in this context is seen as the capacity to shape one’s own life and the lives of others, with a profound responsibility to make authentic and ethical choices.

Corporate Responsibility:

Corporate Power: In the context of business and corporations, the relationship between power and responsibility is often discussed in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Companies with significant economic and social power are expected to act responsibly toward their employees, consumers, communities, and the environment.

Ethical Leadership: Corporate leaders have a responsibility to use their power to create ethical cultures within their organizations, promote sustainability, and ensure that their business practices do not harm society.

Personal Responsibility:

Power Over Self: On an individual level, everyone has some degree of power over their own actions and decisions. Personal responsibility involves using this power to make ethical choices, consider the impact of one’s actions on others, and take responsibility for the consequences.

Empathy and Compassion: Exercising power responsibly often requires empathy and compassion—understanding the needs and perspectives of others, and using one’s power to support and uplift rather than dominate or harm.

The relationship between responsibility and power is a foundational concept in ethics and philosophy, underscoring the idea that those who have the ability to influence or control others must exercise their power with a strong sense of moral duty, accountability, and justice. This relationship is critical to ensuring that power is used in ways that promote the common good, protect the vulnerable, and maintain social and ethical integrity.

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