Ricardo Viana Vargas's Blog, page 8
July 5, 2020
There is no Template for Life
In this episode, Ricardo demonstrates his concerns about the blind use of templates everywhere. Despite being a reliable source of inspiration and ideas, the templates can make you think that your management work is just filling forms while, in reality, you should be thinking, deciding and acting.
June 28, 2020
Stop Worrying About Things You Cannot Control
In this episode, Ricardo reflects on our desire for control and how the lack of control can create all sorts of psychological threats which could culminate in poor results for the project, for the organization and for you. Ricardo also talks about mechanisms of acceptance, reaction, adaptation and learning that you should put in place to be effective and deliver positive results in an environment where you do not have control.
June 21, 2020
Post Mortem Analysis
In this episode, Ricardo introduces the Post Mortem Analysis, one of the less used and most relevant collective learning activities that project and program teams can do at the end of their project, program or initiative.
June 14, 2020
Movement is Not Necessarily Progress
In this episode, Ricardo tries to define what making progress really is. Many times even brilliant people get trapped thinking that movement = action = progress. Movement for the sake of proving you are doing something is pointless, consumes energy and resources and will not take you and your organization anywhere.
June 7, 2020
Regaining Control: Leading Projects and Delivering Results in Turbulent Times
In this episode, Ricardo talks about the free ebook he just released. The book was written alongside Vince Molinaro, one of the top names in leadership research. It discusses how leadership became paramount to delivering actual results in these turbulent times. The free ebook can be downloaded at https://rvarg.as/regainingcontrol
May 31, 2020
Work in Progress (WIP): Your Worst Enemy When Trying to Get Things Done
In this episode, Ricardo talks about the nightmare of trying to get things done and while managing a lot of works in progress that consume money and effort and do not deliver any value to the organization or project.
May 24, 2020
Unimaginable Examples on How the Current Crisis Accelerated Business and Digital Transformation
This week Ricardo talks about some unimaginable examples of how the current crisis accelerated the business and digital transformation dramatically.
May 17, 2020
Is It the End of Employment as We Know It?
In this episode, Ricardo reflects on how the current disrupture may affect employment, as we recognize it today.
May 10, 2020
3 Critical Skills to Be Successful in Current Times
In this episode, Ricardo talks about three skills he believes are critical to be successful in these current times.
May 3, 2020
Planning the Return to the Office during COVID-19 Times
In this week's episode, Ricardo discusses how you can benefit from planning a potential return to the office during the COVID-19 pandemic. With conditions improving in several countries, and people going back to work, it becomes imperative that we address 3 different fronts in our approach: Leadership, Operational/Tactical, and Business/Liquidity/Sales. Ricardo presents some examples of actions you can implement to have a safer, less turbulent, and more effective return to your projects and initiatives.
