Richard Morreale’s Achievement BlogIn my previous Blog, I wrote about the first lesson in my 9 Lessons to Help Overcome Negative Situations. That was Leave it alone and it’s gonna get worse. You may remember, I was truly afraid to go to the doctor with increasingly bad medical symptoms that I had been experiencing for about 3 years. [...]
People that know me know that when I turned 60 my body started giving me loads of trouble. I’m sure that none of the medical problems happened instantaneously. In fact I know they didn’t. I mean I have led a very interesting life. I believe in working hard and playing hard so it’s been great. [...]
The Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management Group (APMG) are two of the biggest reasons that projects fail. They have sold the myth to the corporate world and to their certification customers that successful completion of their certification tests and the addition of Project Management Professional (PMP) after their name or [...]
Recently I was asked to make a presentation to a group of unemployed IT workers on the subject of how to go about finding a job. I thought about it and decided that the best way to go about it is to treat the job search as a project. No, not one of the 70% [...]
A Celebration of Jake October 5th, 1997 – March 22nd 2011 My Handsome Boy – He was ‘The Dog’ Jake When we moved from London to the country to the New House Barn, Linda said that we needed a dog. But, I told her that I didn’t want one. And after a prolonged on-and-off discussion [...]
In all of my audits and reviews of Information Technology (IT) project failures – large and small, we have found that the top reason for failure is the lack of agreed and controlled requirements. In other words, the project team did not have a clear picture of what the customer wanted the team to build [...]
If you’re like me, you have had a few challenges with achieving your New Year’s resolutions. Willpower, lack of focus, not really your resolution but one that someone else thought would be good for you, not knowing how to go about achieving the resolution. These are all things that have kept me from being as [...]
In the late 80′s and early 90′s I had a project management consultancy business and towards the beginning of 1993 we started growing very quickly and we started having a cash flow problem. I left it alone. I did almost nothing. I don’t know why I did almost nothing. Maybe, it was because I felt [...]
When people hear the ‘C’ word – Cancer, they think of the ‘D’ word – Death. People with Cancer are not only in fear for what the Cancer is doing to their body and their future but a large percentage of these patients are fearful of the treatments that they have to go through. Scans, [...]
You know, they say that the UK and the US are two nations divided by a common language. And that is absolutely true. Words in the US mean different things than words in the UK and vice versa. For instance, the first time I was in a pub (probably the first day I was in [...]
