Truthfully, it should be near the top. But sustainability encompasses so many facets, and knowing where and how to start can be challenging. Historically, in the corporate world, sustainability is a word that has often been used to describe business programs, products, and practices related to environmental and social considerations. Until recently, sustainability was viewed […]

Does Your Business Case Pass the Toddler Test?
Does Your Business Case Pass The Toddler Test? I have written, reviewed, and signed off on Business Cases for over 15 years. I have been a parent for three and a half years. It took me two years of being a parent to realize the not always obvious overlap between these two important roles (one […]

The Risk of Inaction (ROI)
Investopedia explains Return on investment (ROI) as a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency or profitability of an investment or compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. ROI tries to directly measure the amount of return on a particular investment, relative to the investment’s cost. This post is not about that. I […]

The importance of being multi-disciplinary with Sustainable Project Management
There is an ongoing debate about whether it is better to be a specialist or a generalist in the marketplace. Some recruiters have provided a recommendation of playing it safe by positioning yourself as a “specialist, with breadth.” In a Forbes article they recommended being a specialist in your topic and desire, and being a […]

Lessons from Harvard 4: How Adaptive Project Teams can work with Command & Control
This is the final of four posts based on my experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program that I took in November 2017, led by Dr. Leith Sharp, integrated with some of our GPM Global content where appropriate. The intent of these posts is to show […]

Lessons from Harvard 3: Discovering the Squiggle on Projects
This is the third of four posts based on my experience at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program that I took in November 2017, led by Dr. Leith Sharp, integrated with some of our GPM Global content where appropriate. The intent of these posts is to show […]