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The Pitfalls of Project Status Reporting

March 18, 2014 | Mark Keil, H. Jeff Smith, Charalambos L. Iacovou, Ronald L. Thompson | Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Accepting five inconvenient truths about project status reporting can greatly reduce the chance of being blindsided by unpleasant surprises. For instance, many employees tend to put a positive spin on anything they report to senior management. And when employees do report bad news, senior executives often ignore it. Overconfidence is an occupational hazard in the executive suite, and executives need to examine their own assumptions and beliefs about project status reporting.

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