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Competency is different from personality. There are out-going project managers who could motivate project team as well as quiet project managers who are good in project planning. Some researchers...
10 September 2012 6,879 6 View
The direct translation of "天人合一" into English is "integration of heaven and human" . 1. Integration of heaven and human 2. Harmony between heaven and human 3. Unity of heaven and human 4....
01 September 2012 4,156 7 View
From the discussion of other thread, it triggered me to ponder about the accuracy of translation and interpretation of ancient Chinese philosophical texts into modern English language. It could be...
28 June 2012 2,585 4 View
Huai Nan Zi Book 2: Beginning of Reality "The creating of the universe had a start, but there was another period that existed before this start took place; before this period that existed before...
24 June 2012 4,243 1 View
Confucianism was founded by the ancient Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius around 500BC. The core teaching is about cultivation of virtue and moral of the individual. After the influence...
21 June 2012 8,095 15 View
Managing a virtual project team with multiple cultural backgrounds could be a huge challenge. Imagine this is the project team: the project sponsor and senior management are from US, product...
19 June 2012 6,082 24 View
There are similarities and differeneces between Taoism's "Nothingness" (无) vs Buddhism's "Emptiness" (空). Both "Nothingnesss" and "Emptiness" are not simply referring to the absence of phyical...
14 June 2012 229 17 View
Extract of the White Horse Paradox: "Can it be that a white horse is not a horse? Advocate: It can. Objector: How? Advocate: "Horse" is that by means of which one names the shape. "White" is...
08 June 2012 4,399 4 View
There are many good teachings in ancient Chinese Philosophy, for example Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism (originated in India and adopted by China). The other school of thoughts have been faded...
02 June 2012 1,656 17 View
Western philosophy focuses on logic and truth while Chinese Philosophy focuses on more life and political issues. However, if we need to single out one key difference between the two, what should...
05 May 2012 5,866 8 View
Finish-to-Start relationship is straight forward as most of the tasks fall under this category. Start-to-Start and Finish-to-Finish tasks are also relatively common. However, Start-to-Finish task...
03 May 2012 9,834 21 View
There is no equivalent single word in English that could translate "Guanxi / 关系". Same applied to the word "Mianzi / 面子" and "Renqing / 人情". Put it roughly, Guanxi refers to the social...
06 February 2012 2,250 1 View
In the pre-Qin period (770 to 221 BC), there are hundred school of thoughts and many great philosophers flourished. To name a few: Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Legalism, Names, Ying-Yang,...
15 December 2011 2,480 0 View
The Wall Street protest is mainly as as result of the uneven wealth distribution in the societies, greediness of the financial institutions and inefficient governments. Ancient Chinese Philosophy...
14 November 2011 7,153 6 View
There is an ongoing debate about the relevant and value of getting professional certifications in project management versus academic qualifications in project management. It should be depending...
19 July 2011 9,432 4 View
Zhuangzi believes the world does not need governing and it should not be governed in the first place. Good order should be in place spontaneously when things are let alone. He spent his all...
13 July 2011 4,489 9 View
I came across this interesting phrase and like to share with you all: “All project managers face problems on Monday mornings – good project managers are working on next Monday’s...
12 July 2011 8,037 0 View
I have received queries from students quite often asking me to suggest on research topics in project management. There are some good journal articles written by Christophe Bredillet which could...
30 June 2011 8,559 3 View
According to Robert K. Wysocki, there are 4 quadrants of PM methodologies. If the Goal is Clear and Solution is Clear, we use Traditional Project Management (TPM). eg. linear processes and...
18 June 2011 4,143 3 View
Everybody has a role to play in contributing to mitigate climate change or global warming. Obviously that include Project Managers in their ways of managing their projects. - Have you consider...
01 May 2011 2,538 3 View
I am attending a Cloud Computing workshop series and trying to learn more about Software-as-a-Service; Platform-as-a-Service; Data-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service etc. I am just...
01 May 2011 6,704 1 View
Anybody has relection or sharing about Chinese Philosophy from the perspectives of Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology? What are the main differences for the above perspectives comparing...
27 February 2011 3,056 4 View
Dear all, Wishing all of you Happy Chinese New Year! With the 5,000 years of accumulated wisdom and experience from Chinese history and philosohpy, it might has an opportunity to provide a...
31 January 2011 1,673 1 View
If you are going to recruit an ancient Chinese Philosopher as the CEO for a modern multi national corporation, who is the best candidate? Tao Zhu Gong (陶朱公） will probabaly bring in more...
10 December 2010 7,763 5 View
Here are some suggested literature about linking ancient Chinese Philosophy to modern management science: Three Kingdoms (Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei, Zhu Ge Liang) - Strategic Management,...
10 December 2010 7,531 2 View
Hi all, Here is a recommended Chinese Philosophy Website: http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/text.pl?node=4463&if=gb&en=on&remap=gb It supports English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese...
18 August 2010 7,403 1 View
According to Chaos 2009 report from Standish group, 68% of the projects consider failed to meet scope, time, cost and qualtiy. With all the project management methodologies, framework,...
08 July 2010 6,845 2 View
There are several initiatives to enhance PM to be a recognised profession. Options: 1. Further PM education and training 2. PM certifications (PMP, IPMA, PRINCE2 etc) 3. Further PM...
11 May 2010 6,521 0 View
Dear members, I am conducting a short survey regarding the influence of AI to Digital Marketing. Appreciate if you could share your opinions. The survey takes only 5 minutes to...
01 January 1970 9,542 1 View
「道可道，非常道」 from Laozi’s Dao De Jing. "The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way." The second word 道 is usually translated into"spoken". However, some readers argue that it should be...
01 January 1970 3,183 2 View
