Running the perfect meeting. Running the perfect project. Putting together the perfect project schedule. It's hard. Perfection is hard. I'm an Iowa Hawkeye fan and alumni of the University of Iowa – class of 1985. They have had some great teams and great football players, but never achieved a perfect 12-0 record until this season. While they weren't perfect – lots of mistakes and luck played into the final outcomes of some of the games – they did manage to complete their regular football season with a perfect record.

You’ve probably heard the saying ‘If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it!”, or some kind of variant of it (‘never change a winning horse’ for example), a million times. Many people are apprehensive about change because it poses a risk, the risk that the endeavor might fail. But there are many reasons to actually embrace change, the most important ones are: Innovation and progress. 

Have you been getting this sick feeling in your stomach every time you think about your project for weeks now? Maybe you’ve even hoped for months on end that you’ll be able to catch up with lost time, or that you’ll still manage to save some of your budget? But however you twist it, things look really bleak right now?

December is here! Which means that it’s officially Christmas season. Before we get to topics such as gingerbread, carols and reindeers, let’s take a look back at what happened on the InLoox blog in November. 

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Christmas season is officially here! It’s the busiest time of the year for retail and the logistics industry. In times of overnight shipping, or even same day shipping, consumer expectations are higher than ever. Which is why the logistics industry needs to continually improve their processes to meet demand. 

We all make mistakes. We may act on incorrect or insufficient information when making our mistakes. Or we just may act on our own poor judgement. Or we may get bad advice from someone else that results in mistakes. We may also just act irrationally or make a rash decision that leads to mistakes. Whatever the cause, mistakes are likely our own fault – at least in terms of how I'm looking at it for this article. 

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What is the key to business success? The answer is: the people behind it. Only if you have the right people, with the right set of skills, and who work well together, will your business succeed. And it’s the responsibility of human resources professionals to find these people. 

What are the catalysts for small business buyers who decide on purchasing and implementing a project management software? Which functionalities must the application have to meet their needs and requirements? Software Advice asked buyers exactly these questions and published their key findings in a very comprehensive and insightful report.

It’s almost Thanksgiving! Many have been looking forward to it all year, but also feel anxious thinking about all the preparations they have to make beforehand. Avoid stress and time pressure and make your Thanksgiving festivities a success by applying project management methods.

People often see meetings as an inevitable evil. As you can’t get out of it anyway, why not make the experience a little bit easier for everyone? Make meetings more enjoyable, effective and efficient by abiding to these simple etiquette rules.