Here we just want to update you on the results of the voting for the top ten Sustainability books for 2011.
And the winner is:
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Have a look at the press release below, and visit the segment in which we’re interviewed here.
Cornelius Fichtner, principal of the hugely successful podcast, asked us to contribute by answering his question: “What’s the single biggest challenge to Project Management today“?
He features responses from people like:
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We’re honored to be in that company!
SILVERADO, CA, November 29, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ — The 200th episode of The Project Management Podcast is released today, celebrating 6 years of bringing project management topics to beginners and experts.
The four-part episode includes interviews with twenty project management experts who all provide their unique opinions about the number-one challenge that project management is facing today.
“Our ‘bicentennial’ podcast both looks back at how far project management has come and reflects on the future,” says Cornelius Fichtner, PMP, President, OSP International LLC and host of The Project Management Podcast. “We are used to working with project management experts on the show, but this is our biggest interview podcast ever. I’m really pleased we have so many great contributions from industry leaders.”
The project management superstars sharing their expertise with listeners include Mark Perry, Peter Taylor, Margaret Meloni, Andy Kaufman, Elizabeth Harrin as well as the presidents of the three leading project management associations: Mark Langley (PMI), Roberto Mori (IPMA) and Stacy Goff (ASAPM). Serial author Max Wideman is also contributing. “Project management as a discipline is interesting because it consists of a number of integrated functional areas,” Wideman says in his podcast segment. “Some of these functions are comparatively well established, whereas other areas are but young neophytes and are not so responsive to the same approach. Project management may be about ‘getting things done’, but it is also about the process or manner of getting things done.”
The show has received nearly 6 million downloads and is available for free through iTunes or The Project Management Podcast website. “Podcasts are convenient, practical and a great way for people to learn new things,” Fichtner says. “Listeners tell me that they get a lot of benefit from the opportunity to hear different, and sometimes challenging, opinions. Even the experts we’ve interviewed for this episode are continually learning.”
OSP International LLC is a project management training company headquartered in Silverado, California, specializing in exceptional products to help candidates prepare for and maintain their PMP credential. OSP International LLC has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI). As a PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), the company has agreed to abide by PMI established quality assurance criteria.
Today, 28-November, is the kickoff of the Durban (South Africa) UN Climate Change Conference – COP17.
Does COP17 matter? Is it relevant?
Not one, but two EarthPM connections to this conference made us curious.
First, we were lucky enough to be the keynote speaker at PMSA’s Good in Green conference there back in late Septenber. Second, the GreenBiz author of a recent post, Heather King, sat down with us last summer to discuss all sorts of green business issues as they pertain to project management. Heather posted this article which provides 4 compelling reasons why COP17 does matter.
We’d like to draw our readers’ attention to reason number 4:
4. Business leaders are increasingly involved — across sectors and continents.
Industry leaders are increasingly involved in the COP talks. As clean energy deployments in over 80 countries have skyrocketed, clean energy suppliers and adopters need assurance that governments will support this market.
In addition, COP 17 will work to establish a technology center that will serve as a hub for leveraging and deploying climate monitoring, management and adaptation solutions in different countries. This will require significant collaboration with technology and information industry leaders.
Two significant business events in Durban that are concurrent with COP 17 intend to elevate the voice and influence of industry at the talks:
• The World Climate Summit. This organization will host its second event on December 3 — 4th with leaders from Ernst and Young, PWC, Coca Cola, Phillips.
• Business for the Environment (B4E). B4E is gathering leaders from Tata Steel, Bank of America, HP and others on December 6 to discuss a clean industrial revolution.
So…that’s reason number 4. If you’re interested in Heather’s other three reasons, click here. We assert that reason number 4 alone is enough to get the Project Managers of the world interested. We’re talking about “skyrocketing” clean energy deployments. Translation: projects. So at a minimum, become conversant in this practice area, improving your ability to be gainfully employed as a productive project manager!
Working together – saving tomorrow today. That’s the theme of COP17. If you want to find out more about the conference, here is the link to COP17.
Sustainability and Our Ocean
Dave with striper on Great Bay
While Rich and I have a lot of passion around sustainability, project management, and sustainable project management, occasionally we diverge a little and talk about our obsessive side, our personal crusades. Back in September, there was an EarthPM post about Omega 3 and menhaden. By the way, that campaign was successful as the Atlantic Marine States Fisheries Commission (AMSFC) voted to reduce the catch of menhaden.
While related, this is different, and I thought we were done with this issue. Apparently we are not. In the 1970′s we almost lost one of our major fisheries resource, the striped bass. I remember when there were a few really big fish being caught, and no small fish. The years following those were the worst on record for striped bass fishing. For all intents and purposes, striped bass disappeared. Intensive fisheries management saved the striped bass fishery then, Look out, deja vu, it is happening again, for some of the same reasons it happened before, over fishing. In their infinite wisdom, some states refuse to acknowledge the striped bass as a gamefish. That acknowledgement would go a long way to protecting this resources. I am very proud of my adopted state, Maine, and the State of New Hampshire where I lived prior to moving to Maine. Those states have adopted gamefish status for the stripers. Massachusetts has not and I don’t understand why.
Southwick Associates, a company that compiles statistics for fish and wildlife issues, concludes that wild striped bass are worth 20-times more per pound as a gamefish as opposed to its commercial value in the market. Doesn’t it make sense to declare the striper a gamefish and keep collecting that kind of revenue? While I was on Cape Cod recently, I stopped at an outfitter whose business is based around the influx of striper fishermen. Cape Cod has always been an ideal fishery for the stripers. There is plenty of squid and other baits for the stripers to feed on and endless flats for the stripers to patrol for food. Last year was one of the worst on record for stripers. Fishing the usually productive flats was virtually non-existent. A few fisher were caught offshore, but there was a marked decline in the stripers available along the shoreline.
I just can’t get my head around the commercial interests who are so short term oriented that they can’t see the forest for the trees. This fishery is not sustainable abused this way! Of course commercial interests put those short term gains in their pocket, but it certainly is not allowing future generations or for that matter, our generation, to continue to enjoy walking the beaches, fishing the rock piles, or searching the estuaries and oceans for stripers from boats or kayaks. Isn’t that what sustainability is all about. Oh, by the way, it makes “cents”, too.
As I said, this struggle is well documented. For further reading, see George Reiger’s Striper Chronicles and Dick Russell’s Striper Wars. Here is an important video that also helps to put the issue in perspective. Seveeal of my friends an aquaintances appear on this video like Lou Tabory, who I’ve know for about 20 years and Coop Gilkes. A quick story about Coop. I had the opportunity to fish Martha’s Vineyard (almost cost me my marriage, but that’s how the fishing obseesion can affect your life, another story). The stripers were keying on a particular fly that Coop ties. I stopped at his shop and he was out of that fly. He went in the back and tied two for me. This was the first time I had stopped in his shop so I wasn’t a regular. But he did it anyway. That’s just the way most members of this fly fishing faternity are. The head cement was still wet when he gave me the flies. Those produced most of the fish I caught during that time on the Vineyard.
Anyway, here is the video. I hope it inspires you to contact ASMFC or the Massachusetts congressional representatives to voice your opinion on making the striper a gamefish. We certainly won’t lose a food sources as stripers are particularly suited for aquaculture. Unlike salmon who have to re raised in saltwater pens, therefore have a chance to compete with wild stock, stripers are raised in freshwater. In addition, when pond raised, there is little change of the heavy metal concentrations that affect wild stock. Please do your part.
Stripers as Gamefish