Comments on: Let’s Not Talk About the Vampire in the Living Room http://svprojectmanagement.com/let%e2%80%99s-not-talk-about-the-vampire-in-the-living-room Project management wisdom from practictioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mental Health Update http://svprojectmanagement.com/let%e2%80%99s-not-talk-about-the-vampire-in-the-living-room/comment-page-1#comment-67 Mental Health Update Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:35:05 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/?p=132#comment-67 <strong>Let's Not Talk About It...</strong> From the realm of project management, some good advice on anxiety and communications....... Let’s Not Talk About It…

From the realm of project management, some good advice on anxiety and communications…….

]]> By: kwiefling http://svprojectmanagement.com/let%e2%80%99s-not-talk-about-the-vampire-in-the-living-room/comment-page-1#comment-64 kwiefling Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:59:46 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/?p=132#comment-64 Yikes! The vivid imagery of the vampire in the room woke me up! As a matter of fact, the number one mistake people make with risk is identifying it but doing nothing about it. This happened to a team I worked with several years ago. I recall one of several shocking incidents when a predicted problem that we all knew was a problem hit us like a ton of bricks. We were completely blind-sided by a problem that was on our risk list. We blinked incongruously at one another and then asked "Are we just stupid? How could this happen?" Bottom line, we were all scrambling to deal with the immediate blizzard of challenges and we had allocated absolutely no bandwidth to watching out for the next wave of disasters. With our peripheral vision down to ZERO, we fell into a trap of our own making . . . repeatedly! With all of us running around hepped up on adrenaline, no one was thinking clearly enough to do anything about the vampires we'd identified. In retrospect, we should have assigned someone to keep an eye on the big pitcure, crucifix and wooden stake at the ready! Yikes! The vivid imagery of the vampire in the room woke me up! As a matter of fact, the number one mistake people make with risk is identifying it but doing nothing about it. This happened to a team I worked with several years ago. I recall one of several shocking incidents when a predicted problem that we all knew was a problem hit us like a ton of bricks. We were completely blind-sided by a problem that was on our risk list. We blinked incongruously at one another and then asked “Are we just stupid? How could this happen?” Bottom line, we were all scrambling to deal with the immediate blizzard of challenges and we had allocated absolutely no bandwidth to watching out for the next wave of disasters. With our peripheral vision down to ZERO, we fell into a trap of our own making . . . repeatedly! With all of us running around hepped up on adrenaline, no one was thinking clearly enough to do anything about the vampires we’d identified. In retrospect, we should have assigned someone to keep an eye on the big pitcure, crucifix and wooden stake at the ready!

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