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Still, management-bashing seems to be in vogue these days. Take a look at my Top 10 ways to tell If You Are Management Material and then try the Who Wants to Be a Manager? quiz.
If you know what to do, you'd better get started because there is a lot of work to be done. If you're not sure what to do, read Planning a Project, Planning A Company Meeting. This sample plan, one of a series, shows how such a proejct might be planned out.
This expression is often used in project management to explain why the critical path can't be compressed. The argument is that some things just take a certain length of time to do.
The counter argument is that with proper planning and pre-positioning of assets it is possible. If a machine makes a widget in nine months, nine machines will make nine widgets in nine months, the equivalent of 1 per month.
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