The History PM

As I watch my mother-in-law prepare dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year, (technically it is the lunar new year since it is not just the

Introduction Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York in 1858, to a wealthy family  but was plagued by ill-health, suffering from severe asthma. A very

Introduction In my previous Post we looked at the potential effect of failing to act (or appearing to) ethically on our careers. Captain Rostron was

Introduction On the night of the 14th/15th of April 1912, one of the most famous maritime tragedies occurred. The unsinkable White Star Liner the Titanic

Introduction As the young United States republic developed, it was not clear whether it was going to survive. It took the crisis of a civil

Introduction Last week I was wondering what the next blog topic would be. I was thinking about “Likability”, and then I thought about “Truthfulness”, and

Introduction Here we go with another Average blog post. Last week we looked at how we arrived at the average world we live in, but

Introduction There is no such thing as an average project, they are all different. DUH!  of course! We may think that but, much of our

Introduction On the evening of the 28th of December 1879, a violent storm brought down a section of the new Tay rail bridge, taking with

Introduction Around 7:00 in the evening John Watt struggles through the worst storm he can remember to visit his friend Thomas Barclay, the signalman at

Introduction Project Managers, like all human beings do not want to think that their success is due to luck. After all we are PMPs1, or

Introduction The 20th Century is often referred to as “The American Century”. What drove the United States from its isolationist stance to leader of the

Introduction In the first two posts in the series we saw how the network of alliances and ententes failed to prevent the Great Powers coming

Introduction For two decades authors both fictional and non-fictional had speculated that there would soon be a major European war, but no one agreed who

Introduction In some ways the Europe of the early 20th century was like our world today. There was continual change, and inventions were rapidly altering

Introduction Over the last few weeks, we have explored events which occurred in the last few hundred years. Now, I would like to explore the