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A Turning Point for Humanity

Musings on Project Management

Ordinarily, we here at Musings don't go into for a lot of hyperbole, but when no less an eminence than the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shouts out: "A Turning Point for Humanity: Redefining the World's Measurement System" we have to sit up and take notice And so what are we talking about here? Does this mean that all the PMOs have to turn in their sliderules and.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

I know not why I am so sad - Antonio, at the beginning of The Merchant of Venice. Our brains have been designed from evolution to make calculations about possible futures. This is called deciding. When this deciding takes place in the presence of uncertainty, we are not able to connect the causes found in the past with the effects that are possible in the future without estimating these possible connections between cause and effects [1].

2007 30
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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

I know not why I am so sad - Antonio, at the beginning of The Merchant of Venice. Our brains have been designed from evolution to make calculations about possible futures. This is called deciding. When this deciding takes place in the presence of uncertainty, we are not able to connect the causes found in the past with the effects that are possible in the future without estimating these possible connections between cause and effects [1].

2007 28