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Project Management and the Discovery of the Titanic

How are April 14, 1912 and September 1, 1985 tied together? The former is the last time the survivors of the Titanic saw her as she sank beneath the tranquil Atlantic Ocean on that fateful night and the latter is the next time she was seen on the bottom of the Atlantic in a depth over 2.5 miles by an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard.

Early on the morning of the discovery Dr. Ballard’s team aboard the research vessel, the Knorr, scanned the seabed in the...

 

Take my advice: Everything's going to be all right.

Look, I know. I've read the anxiety in many e-mails; I've seen the worry in people's faces; this is a time of great financial uneasiness.

There's no doubt about it, keeping a company healthy and moving forward in today's world  is stressful, straining, and tedious. The lack of certainty over what's going to happen to you, your organization, your associates, your family, and your career creates so much worry that it's easy to fall prey to periods of despair and doubt.

 

The Importance of a Mentor....

I drove to Pennsylvania last weekend to see my mentor from my old New York City days. Larry has been a Certified Project Management Professional and Entrepreneur for almost thirty years now and took me  under his wing as part of his mentoring and leadership development program.

It was wonderful to visit with him and his lovely wife Marilyn again. We sat in the mountains in beautiful northeast Pennsylvania talking about old times. And as we chatted, I realized that his stories...