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Indonesian RfPDM Rolls On

The Asian Development Bank kicks-off its Results-focused Project Design and Management (RfPDM) courses for 2012. The RfPDM courses will provide the participants from the respective countries with a better understanding of project’s stakeholders, and will provide them with tools for applying a results focused approach to project design. Eventually, the Executing Agency (EA) staff gets [...]

ADB Board Meets

The 45th Annual Meeting of ADB’s Board of Governors will be held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila, Philippines. Meeting will go on from Wednesday through Saturday, 2-5 May 2012.

Annual meetings are statutory occasions for Governors of ADB members to provide guidance on ADB administrative, financial, and operational directions. The meetings provide [...]

Of Ducks and Eagles

Once in a while, we come across a nice metaphor for our facilitation work. Mine came one saturday afternoon. Ducks and eagles. Here’s how it goes.

Don’t Send Your Ducks To Eagle School The first rule of management is this: don’t send your ducks to eagle school. Why? Because it won’t work. Good people are [...]

Pecha Kucha: Presentations where Less is More!

Ever wondered how to present your DMF to pressed-for-time executives, project managers and stakeholders? These days, they are no longer easily impressed with Powerpoint as they used to. In fact, many are turned-off seeing yet another Powerpoint slides with the standard templates. They don’t like long and boring lectures either. Enter micro lectures via Petcha [...]

A Project Managers’ Song

I was directed by a friend to this video site on the net. I knew the song from yesteryears…but I have never heard it sang this way before. It is a wonderful song sang by less than famous singers and musicians who are sending us the the message of peace, solidarity and hope during this [...]