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on December 30, 2024

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Time Management or is it really Project Management?

We have been told since young by others that in order to do something well, we need to have good time management. As one who leads projects for a living who knows a thing or two about this, I will say that time management is a fallacy. Purely speaking, time management (just like managing people) refers to managing time in which we control time, i.e. we can accelerate it (to make it go faster), slow it down, or to stop time. We can do this with a lot of things but we cannot manage time - it continues to chug along, whether we like it or not. If you were to ask me the time and my answer is, say 9:00am, that time is already gone because it is 9:01am when you continue with what you are doing. Time is like a freight train or a subway that we can only latch on to and hope we can do things within the allotted time. Ask the student who needs to submit the paper at 11:59pm Sunday night or the employee who need to submit the report Mon morning 9:00am. In truth, what ...

Simple Project Management: For Noobs to Pros

Are you in high school or college or a fresh graduate who just started work? Have you been assigned to do a project and you have zero ideas how to start? THIS BOOK OUTLINES ALL THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE GAINED FROM OVER 20 YEARS OF DOING PROJECT MANAGEMENT (SUCCESSFULLY)... Are you a new homeowner, a new parent, a traveler who wishes to plan his own itinerary, someone who wants to start a business? Where do you start? Is there a checklist on what to do? My name is Wei Kwan and I have been teaching Project Management (PM) as part of my job responsibilities for over 10 years now - mainly to buyers, sales, engineers, managers. This is to allow the staff in my company develop PM skills as they embark on activities such as cost reduction, continuous improvement, value engineering. During a conversation with a college senior from the National University of Singapore, he remarked that "project management is dull and difficult". Obviously, as a PM professional, I was curious and ...

Why this Blog?

Err...what? You are starting a blog in your 50s? Well, not exactly. When I first started a so-called blog, it was 2001 in the free Geocities site (this later became oocities). This went on for some time and there is a long hiatus after 2006 as work and parenting duties (2 kids) started to take its toll. For those interested how an old blog looks like, here is the site (perhaps we can check again 10-20 years from today to confirm if this last for ever): A Malaysian in Singapore So yes, i started again in my 50s to provide advice to those coming after me so that they can learn and perhaps do something better than what I have done...hence the title "Paving the Wei", i.e. to make it easier for something to happen or for someone to do something. Thanks again for visiting and I hope that you get as much from the blog as I have in writing it... Our definition of success is never about how well we do for ourselves in this generation, but how well we enable the next gener...

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