Do you measure and place value on Environmental, Social, and Economic impacts in your projects? If not, you should. While outcomes matter to project owners, impacts are what matter to stakeholders. Stakeholders are a person, group, or organization that has interests in, or can affect, be affected by, or perceive themselves to be affected by, […]
Tag: Project Management
We Need to Raise Capable Leaders; Yesterday.
We in the Project profession must rethink what leadership means. The textbook dictionary definition of “leader” is a person or thing that leads or a guiding or directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group. “Directing hand” is close but doesn’t quite exemplify what we need in order to raise capable successors. We […]
Sustainable Development Goal 14. “Life Under Water and Project Management”
This installment in our series on the SDGs focuses on #14 of 17, conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, “Life Underwater”. This SDG has seven targets which you can read in detail. The short version is to protect the water and life that depends on it. Everything from the economic […]
Waste not, want not: how projects can drive reductions in waste
I recently watched the first episode in a three-part series on waste produced by the government broadcaster in Australia. The War on Waste (check it out here) examining various aspects of waste and how Australian’s waste significant amounts of money and produce the fifth largest producer of municipal waste in the world, producing over 52 […]
Sustainable Development Goal #13 of 17 and Project Management, Climate Action.
In this installment of our series on the SDGs, we look at #13 of 17, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. I am going to approach this SDG a bit different from the others in the series because this is a heavily debated topic. First. Climate Change is real. Few debate […]
Are you breaching the Code of Ethics by not being sustainable?
At a recent presentation to a group of project managers in Australia I spoke about sustainable projects and sustainable project management. During the presentation I put forward the argument that if project management is to be considered a profession, then we collectively need to operate to a higher set of ethical standards. So what is […]
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