Sivabalan Karuppannan

“Isn’t it ironic that those people who claim they don’t have enough time to plan always have enough the time to start over when their shoddy initial planning drives their project over a cliff?”
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams

“Empowerment may often be considered a cliché, but if people don’t have a sense of empowerment, their sense of autonomy suffers and so do their productivity and performance.3”
― Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging
― Why Motivating People Doesn't Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging
“Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver.”
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams

“Task conflict is healthy and is important to get to the best decisions, but it is highly correlated with relationship conflict, which leads to poorer decisions and morale. What to do? Build trust first, the study concludes. Teams that trust each other will still have disagreements, but when they do, they will be accompanied by less emotional rancor.”
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
“Many an executive has skimped on investing in research or training because it was perceived that these would not produce meaningful benefits in the upcoming quarters. Those myopic executives reasoned that by the time such investments bore fruit, they’d be out of there!”
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
― Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
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