Going back to the Vision, Getting More Specific

Mosiah 4:30- Watch yourselves and continue in the faith of what ye have heard

• Summary of Crucial Conversations - Have to watch yourself and what you're doing based on your thoughts, words, emotions. The key is to observe the commandments of God, which teach people to be kind, forgiving, loving. Consider what the Savior would do.
• In project management, when the CEO comes in with a vision, sometimes they don't keep "beating the drum" or setting everyone's thoughts on that goal.
• I think measurement and feedback are the ways to accomplish this scripture.
• 'watch yourselves, and your thoughts' = Metacognition - think about what you're thinking!
• Murder in the Cathedral- To be a martyr- "The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason."

The Netflix Culture

• A good work environment: stunning coworkers
• "Adequate performance gets a generous severance package."
• Give a generous severance now to make a place for someone else who could do a better job!
• Measuring effectiveness over effort? We all have a different end to fulfill, but we are all capable of achieving it. We're all capable of improvement.

Perhaps part of being a good project manager is allowing group members the opportunity to make and fulfill individual goals.

Research Questions in a Thesis

1. Make the question so small that the faculty won't accept it as a significant contribution.
2. THEN cut it in half.

Effective model and key principles for distance learning in higher education? (This could have been two studies.) - Don't use "and"s in questions because there are really more questions in the one.

- No yes/no questions.
- Cannot offer universal answers.

Customers of a Thesis

• Immediate customer is your committee
• The field is your primary audience. But you can't get to them without pleasing your committe. Find efficient ways to communicate with them. (For example, instead of printing out your entire dissertation, make changes with Change Tracking and then print it out so they can view it again.)