Sun.May 17, 2020

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How can we evaluate risks more objectively?

Kiron Bondale

Objective : Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations (Merriam-Webster). I responded to a discussion thread on ProjectManagement.com this week about categorizing risks and after doing so, I spent some time thinking about the impacts of bias on how we evaluate risks.

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Put Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Work

PM Basics

Understanding the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs will help you better understand how to motivate your project team. It’s still one of the theories tested during the PMI PMP exam. Maslow’s theory describes the pattern of how human motivation develops. Nowadays, the theory is represented as a pyramid. For sure, you have already seen it many times: It’s a modern interpretation.