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Dec 2023
7m 43s

Why Projects are Like War: Quite Easy to...

RICARDO VIANA VARGAS
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In this episode, Ricardo explores the difficulty in completing projects, highlighting three leading causes. First, anxiety causes you to start more projects than you can finish, resulting in a backlog of work. Second, planning based on ideal conditions leads to underestimating the actual complexity of the work, which causes delays. Third, a lack of awareness ... Show More
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