There is not one way to make a great lasagna. Of course the basic idea is always the same, but depending on your taste, cooking skills and available ingredients you can have a lot of variations. Some use all fresh ingredients, make the pasta from scratch and spend several hours in the kitchen. I buy prefabricated ingredients and whip it up in several minutes. Both lasagna, but both very different.

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Yesterday I wrote a piece at SVProjectManagement.com about an important lesson we can learn from the Fish Pond Metaphor: the need to preplan.

"The idea about preplanning is to equip yourself in such a way that you can adapt to circumstances. That you create an start situation that is as good as you possibly can. If you go to the arctic, you take warm cloths, if you go to the tropics you pack T-shirts. If you don’t know, you pack several shirts you can wear over each other, depending on the temperature."

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Ecology, Ethics and the Project manager – A Zen Perspective

"Here it is the month in which Earth Day occurs again; so the question - “How does project management relate to ecology and environmental responsibility?” is very relevant. Let’s explore the question in light of project manager ethics and, more broadly, ethical behavior in general."

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