Today, I’d like to take a slight detour from pure business issues to talk a bit about the etymology of a very important word for most of us who are involved with performance management.

This word is budget. Today it describes the process by which most organizations att...

It’s a question that’s lingered as long as there have been projects…

Why do bad things happen to good projects? Why do projects fail?

There are as many answers to these questions as there are books in the library. 

This hasn’t stopped many authors and academics from co...

In many areas, one has a tendency to overuse averages as a way to summarize and describe events and values. In statistical terms, an average may be an adequate measurement if the distribution we’re looking at takes the form of a Gauss curve, especially if it is a narr...