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Design Thinking in the Age of Systems Thinking What does design thinking look like when we take systems seriously?

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Why Government Will Lead This Shift Whether We Name It or Not Professionalizing project managenent

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AI is Removing the Middle The dominant conversation says AI is replacing professionals.

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What I Learned About Agentic Reasoning When Systems Pursue Outcomes

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The Problem Usually Isn’t Where It Shows Up A primer on looking beneath the surface

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When Pressure Is the Wrong Move Redesigning what is underneath

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The Dashboard Is No Longer Enough Why the Traditional PMO Model Is Quietly Breaking

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Nicole Williams (@pmresearcher) Check out my new post!

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Nicole Williams (@pmresearcher) Check out my new post!

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Nicole Williams (@pmresearcher) Is the Lean Startup Still Relevant? The Evolution of a Movement More than a decade ago, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries ignited a revolution in how entrepreneurs build companies. It promised a method t...

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The Long-Term Consequences of Quick Wins Why Borrowing Concepts Matters

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Turning Information Into Impact: The INSIGHT-TO-ACTION™ Model It’s tempting to believe that the more information we gather, the better our decisions will be.

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How to Take a Concept From One Domain and Use It in Another Why Your Best Ideas Don’t Belong Where You Found Them.

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The Mental Models of Systems Thinking: Tools for Seeing the Bigger Picture Systems Thinking Series, Part 3

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Systems Thinking: No Single Toolkit Systems Thinking Series, Part 2

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Why Systems Thinking Must Come Before Analytical Thinking When most projects begin, the first instinct is to get into the weeds: create a timeline, define deliverables, assign tasks, and set up the Gantt chart.

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Nicole Williams (@pmresearcher) At Glenstone, the walls are as important as the art. Each room holds just one or two works, framed by concrete and silence. It reminded me of frameworks. Frameworks don’t give you the answer — they ...

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Why Systems Thinking Must Come Before Analytical Thinking When most projects begin, the first instinct is to get into the weeds: create a timeline, define deliverables, assign tasks, and set up the Gantt chart.

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The Governance Pendulum: How PMOs Gain and Lose Power Why the fate of the PMO has always been a swing between control and chaos.

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Why Sohail Saifi Is Right About the Death of Scrum In his widely discussed article “The Death of Agile,” Sohail Saifi critiques the overuse of Scrum and the ceremonial weight that has come to define Agile in many organizations.

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OKRs Measure What Matters When you need clarity at scale, OKRs are the lens.

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What complexity science reveals about leading real change through projects You Can’t Optimize What You Don’t Understand

“What Complexity Science Reveals About Framework Failures”
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Think ripple effects, feedback loops, emergent behaviors—and how PMs can use complexity science to design smarter, more adaptive systems. #projectmanagement

Portfolio Burn Rate 101 What you should track.

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Why Project Data Analytics Is the New Core Knowledge For decades, project management was driven by process and experience.

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How Google’s CIRCLES Framework Teaches You to Solve Any Problem In rooms where decisions carry weight—product strategy, project management, executive governance, systems design—clarity isn’t a luxury.

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How Google’s CIRCLES Framework Teaches You to Solve Any Problem In rooms where decisions carry weight—product strategy, project management, executive governance, systems design—clarity isn’t a luxury.

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The Critical Path: The Real Reason You’re Not Making Progress Understanding the invisible sequence that determines whether you succeed or stall.

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Words Matter: Project Terminology Every PM Should Know (and Use Correctly) Here’s the thing: people toss around terms like “initiative,” “milestone,” or “epic” as if everyone shares the same definitions.

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Report signals OVER Report status

Focus on strategic outcomes OVER Focus on scope

Detect patterns OVER Mitigate risk

Advise leadership OVER Update leadership

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