The Lazy Project Manager: How to be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early

by Peter Taylor

‘A bad beginning makes a bad ending.’ Euripides (484 BC – 406 BC)

‘Projects don’t fail at the end.

the reality of project history and the typical phases that projects experience: • Enthusiasm • Total confusion • Disillusionment • Search for the guilty • Punishment of the innocent • Reward and promotion of the non-participants

‘The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.’