A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Introduction and About the Author I’m Carl Pritchard. I have stage four cancer, diagnosed in 2021. It’s a cancer of the lung and neuroendocrine cancer of the liver. I will never forget my…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Fifty-One—Back in the Saddle—Personal Reinvention As a birthday present, my wife’s sister gave her a trip to Pittsburgh for what may have been the last full-blown concert by Aerosm…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Fifty—Critical Path-A Life-Changer I remember the first time I was taught about the critical path. We had a bunch of Post-It® notes with activities and durations written on t…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Nine— Happy Birthday to You!! As I write this, my wife’s birthday is next week. The celebration begins on the first of the month, and continues until my birthday in October….
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Eight— Good Times with Sir Walter Riley and the Appalachian Service Project The shed above holds some of my favorite earthly belongings. My snowblower. My extension ladder. M…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Seven— Avoiding Self-Inflicted Injury I love that sign. It was clearly someone’s serious intent to avoid liability for inappropriate activity on their property—a golf c…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Six— More than Two Years In…Common Cold or Cancer Redux? I have a cold. Please God, let it be a cold. It has all the trappings of a cold, with the runny nose, bronchiti…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Five—You Know More Than You Know I’m a TV addict. Historically, I think I’ve watched every episode of the long-running Hawaii Five-Oh. Law & Order? I ha…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Four—If I Could Fix One Thing My mother died of cancer. Her mother died of cancer. Her daughter and son both have had cancer. For me, it’s pretty evident what “one thing” I w…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Three—What’s on the Agenda? Let’s Keep it That Way! I confess. I’m an anal-retentive clock-watcher. Most of the family members in this photo share that common trait. If we’re…
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A Project Manager’s Game Plan for Dealing with Incurable Cancer Segment Forty-Two— The Power of Common Context (And why I have a dozen copies of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations) Common Context You and I share a common context. We both read English. We k…
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