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Chapter five

The art of preparing

CONTENTS

The lure of the fail-safe

Planning fallacy

Bandwagon effect

Automation bias

Key enablers to the art of preparing

Mindful practices: the power of empowerment

Leading the art of preparing

Mindful practices: training

Self-serving bias

The impact of preparing on relationships

Mindful practices: establishing long-term commitment

Mindful practices: winning hearts and minds

Space Shuttle Columbia – a failure of preparing

Towards an art of preparing

The mindful organism of a project requires a state of preparedness and readiness to contain adversity. As part of this, project managers ...

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