Various themes
Listen to Ricardo commenting on project management in shows, luxury goods and in the planning of the World Cup in Brazil among other issues.
This playlist has 38 episodes.
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The Devastating Uncertainty of Life: The Tragedy of The Recent Events in Israel
(Oct 09, 2023)
In this podcast, Ricardo expresses deep sadness and extends condolences to those affected by the recent tragic events in Israel and Gaza. He emphasizes his personal connection, mentioning that he has brothers and sisters in both Israel and Palestine. Ricardo highlights the importance of understanding and managing uncertainty, a crucial skill for project managers.
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How to Poorly Manage Crisis: My Swiss Airlines Nightmare
(Oct 02, 2023)
In this podcast episode, Ricardo shares a recent experience with Swiss Airways that highlights the mishandling of a crisis in the airline industry. Ricardo's flight from Lisbon to Punta Cana via Zurich was delayed progressively, ultimately leading to a seven-hour delay. When the flight was finally canceled due to technical issues, the airline did not assist in accommodation or support.
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My Participation at Burning Man Was Much More Than Attending an Event
(Sep 18, 2023)
A new Podcast is on the air and this week Ricardo discusses how our work and personal relationships tend to feed back into our perspective and set of implications. In the last Newsletter he published, Ricardo spoke about an event that was introduced to me by a great friend, Burning Man. Ricardo went to Burning Man this month looking for something “out of the box”.
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Why People Got Surprised When I Shared My Certificate Last Week?
(Aug 14, 2023)
In the newest episode of "Why People Got Surprised When I Shared My Certificate Last Week?" Ricardo shares a surprising experience. After completing an AI certification program often chosen by younger professionals, many people sent positive notes and called him an "inspiration" for project managers. Why does a gesture like that by someone over 50 and with a consolidated career cause so much surprise and impact? Why is it not the opposite?
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What Can Be Learned from the Tragedy of Titan Submersible?
(Jun 26, 2023)
In this episode, Ricardo discusses the tragedy of the Titan Submersible, highlighting what we can learn from this deep-sea catastrophe. He discusses the inherent complexities of oceanic exploration and their implications on project management, using the submersible's story as a case study.
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Why Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) Is So Dangerous for You and Your Projects
(Oct 24, 2022)
Why the Fear of Being Left Out (FOMO) Is So Dangerous for You and Your Projects … This week, Ricardo talks about FOMO, or "Fear of missing out," which is the anxiety we have when we don't feel included in a specific scenario, causing us to feel unmotivated and have low self-esteem. New technologies, cryptocurrencies, the metaverse, and artificial intelligence are just examples that can make us feel out of date and like we are falling behind.
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The Disturbing Results of Gallup State of the Global Workforce Report 2022
(Jun 20, 2022)
In this week's episode, Ricardo talks about the Gallup - State of the Global Workspace 2022 report. This report is the result of an interview with people around the world and shows the level of stress, motivation, and engagement of people working in companies. According to the report, 60% of people interviewed consider themselves disconnected from work. And to make matters worse, 19% are actively disengaged.
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What are The Top 3 Values Project Management Brings to an Organization: The Elevator Pitch
(May 09, 2022)
In this week's episode, Ricardo talks about the three central values that project management brings to the organization that you could talk about in a brief speech in an Elevator Pitch. The first: Project management is one of the most powerful tools to organize your workflow and prevent chaos from setting in. Regardless of the approach used, project management will define the criteria that will manage the flow of work within the organization.
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The World of Inflexibility is Over
(Apr 11, 2022)
In this week's episode, Ricardo talks about flexibility and inflexibility when planning something. We often have the mindset of planning, executing, and controlling something so that it must go exactly as planned. Any variation in the plan is bad and should be avoided, this is inflexibility, and all we don't have today is predictability, showing that the world of inflexibility no longer exists.
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Empathy and Support During Incredibly Challenging Times: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
(Mar 01, 2022)
Faced with this week's events with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ricardo had decided not to record any new episode this week. However, today he decided to record a different episode, talking about empathy and support in uncertain times like the current ones. In this week's episode, he talks about the importance of understanding that reality has changed and that there is no perspective on how the subsequent events will unfold.
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How Fragile and Volatile are Businesses: The Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram Outage
(Oct 04, 2021)
This week we return to the theme from a few weeks ago, how technology projects are riskier than most people imagined. Surprised by the paralysis of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, we were more than left out of communication. The damage caused throughout the world by the hours out of the air on these platforms is incalculable. What to learn from what happened? How to deal with this dependence on companies today?
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How to Support Future Generations for a World Based in Projects
(Aug 23, 2021)
In the last 20 or 30 years, project management has taken on a vast proportion, and a good part of the population works, even if they don't know it, in some way with projects. So why do people see the world for projects as a threat? What are the misunderstandings? Let's talk about how I see project management and how to support future generations to work in a different world, a world by projects. Listen to the Podcast to learn more.
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Zaatari: The Desert that Became Home
(Oct 31, 2016)
In this episode, Ricardo talks directly from the Zaatari refugee camp located in Jordan, where he is participating in the recordings of the documentary: "Zaatari: The Desert that Became Home" (in a free translation). Zaatari is the largest camp of Syrian War refugees, and, in just four years, it became the third city in the country. Learn more about the documentary .
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Networking, the right way
(Feb 08, 2016)
In this episode, Ricardo gives tips to improve the way we do networking.
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Inside Triple-E: The World's Largest Ship
(Sep 30, 2013)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about his visit to the world's largest ship, the Danish Triple-E, anchored in the Copenhagen harbour this month. The ship was manufactured in South Korea and had several technological solutions of a sustainable design. The "E" stands for "Economic of Scale", "Energy Efficiency" and "Environmental Performance". Learn more about the ship at www.worldslargestship.com
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The saving of the Costa Concordia
(Sep 23, 2013)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks, from the project management perspective, about the impressive salvage operation of the Italian liner Costa Concordia which crashed into rocks and sank on January 13, 2012.
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A Different Podcast: Harry Potter Studios in London
(Jan 07, 2013)
In this first podcast of 2013, Ricardo comments, from the project management perspective, his surprising visit to the Harry Potter Studios in London. How a brilliant idea, through a outstanding execution, has become one of the most successful projects in the world. See the pictures: http://rvarg.as/harrypotter
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The Success is a Danger
(Nov 05, 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo throws the question: When success becomes a danger? When the project starts to work too well, success can go to your head? He talks about the consequences and give insights on how to prevent this from happening.
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Danubio Becker Borba - A Great Legacy to Project Management
(Aug 13, 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo pays homage to his friend and teacher Danúbio Becker Borba, who died recently. Prof. Danúbio was an example of a dedicated teacher and one of the volunteers founders of the chapter PMI São Paulo. He had special participation in designing the PMDome workshop and pioneered the use of the techniques of games for education in project management.
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Steve Jobs: Genious? Innovator? Project Manager?
(Oct 14, 2011)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about Steve Jobs, he says that after reading many biographies, articles and news about Steve Jobs, there were many doubts about the DNA that generated so much success for Apple - it was the genius, innovation or the ability to manage projects from Steve Jobs?
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A Tribute to Professor Carlos Salles
(Aug 09, 2011)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about professor Salles who unfortunately left us a few days ago. He says that Salles was an extremely correct person, who was specialist in Project Management and much beloved by his students and colleagues. Ricardo also talks about the importance of the proximity between the PMI and the PM community in Brazil that Salles was ahead.
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Tribute to Eliyahu Goldratt
(Jun 13, 2011)
In this podcast, Ricardo makes a tribute to the Israeli physicist Eliyahu Goldratt. He passed away last Saturday, June 11th, 2001 at 64 years of age. Goldratt was one of the most charismatic and revolutionary thinkers of organizational work. He created the Theory of Constraints (TOC) and the Critical Chain Project Management and his studies and researches are the working standards of modern organizations worldwide.
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Tribute to Gregory Balestrero that Leaves PMI After 8 Years of Leadership
(Jan 10, 2011)
In this podcast Ricardo Vargas pays tribute to Greg Balestrero, President and CEO of PMI. He highlights Greg's dedication and commitment to PMI during his 8 years as the institution's main executive, leading the world's most important organization dedicated to project management. Ricardo also emphasizes the transition of the Institute's new executive leader, Mark Langley, who takes over as President and CEO in 2011.
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200th Podcast - Soccerex in Rio de Janeiro
(Dec 07, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the Soccerex - the largest convention and business of football in the world, which was held in Rio de Janeiro between 20-24 November. He was invited to attend the event and had the opportunity to talk about some key issues for planning the 2014 soccer cup.
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The Seizure of the Alemao Complex in Rio de Janeiro under the Project Management Perspective
(Nov 29, 2010)
In this podcast Ricardo discusses the project and crisis management to seize the Alemão (German) Complex in Rio de Janeiro-Brazil, one of the most violent slums, dominated by drug dealers and gangs. He discusses the coordination of actions, speed and strategy in the successful management of the crisis.
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Paul McCartney Concert in Sao Paulo and Project Management for Mega Events.
(Nov 23, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the production of mega-events from the viewpoint of project management and uses Paul McCartney's concert that he attended last Sunday. He shows the complexity of performing a concert with 65,000 people watching and the activities needed to realize the show. Ricardo made the first version (draft) of a WBS for mega-events that is available at the downloads page.
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Rescue of Mining Workers in Chile: A Project Management Show
(Oct 17, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the rescue of 33 mining workers in Chile from the view of project management. He comments that the expectation in realizing the rescue was very bad and the planning of the actions and setting priorities was essential for a successful rescue. In the next week, Ricardo will publish the second part of the podcast about the Global Congress
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Tribute to Rita Mulcahy
(May 24, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo pays a tribute to Rita Mulcahy, who passed away on May 15th. He says he had the opportunity to meet her back in 1998 in California, when he attended to a presentation she was giving. At that very moment he realized that Rita was a different person.
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Directly from MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Part 2 of 2
(Mar 30, 2010)
In this second podcast of the MIT series, Ricardo talks about the development and management of successful strategies of product development. He talks of innovation and the difference between the ability of companies to create value and capture value.
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Directly from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Part 1 of 2
(Mar 23, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the course on Management of Development Complex Product that he is doing in Cambridge at MIT. He explains that complex products can be aviation products, electronics, hardware and others. Ricardo also talks about the types of complexity involving the product and a mathematical model to help plan these products that is the Design Structure Matrix - DSM.
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Automotive recall from the perspective of Project Management
(Mar 08, 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the problems of recall in the automotive industry which occurred in February and how project management can help in situations like this. He explains that there is an increasing pressure on time and lower costs, leading companies to a greater exposure to risk.
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Directly from Paris: The Secret of Project Management for Luxury Goods
(Feb 01, 2010)
Directly from Paris, France, Ricardo talks in this podcast about the most important characteristics of project management for the development of luxury goods, where criteria like speed and cost reduction are revisited and re-contextualized to reach a market that is driven by other assumptions. He focus on the image construction and exclusivity as essential peculiarity of the functional scope (requirement) of this kind of product.
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Brazil in the Cover of The Economist Magazine and what this Relates to Proper Project Management
(Nov 16, 2009)
In this podcast Ricardo makes comments about the cover of the British magazine The Economist on 14 of November, 2009. The magazine presented the opportunities in Brazil and how the country is dealing with the growth. It will be a unique opportunity for superior practice of Project Management and certainly the biggest challenge for the future.
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Seal, Madonna and U2 Concert - A Project Management Concert
(Aug 10, 2009)
In this podcast Ricardo describes his experience at the Madonna, U2 and Seal concerts. Much more than a musical concert, what he saw was an impeccable project management show.
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2014 FIFA Soccer WorldCup in Brazil
(Jul 27, 2009)
Podcast that Ricardo return back to the project management needs to the 2014 Soccer WorldCup in Brazil. The podcast was recorded in order to complement the interview that he gave to the brazilian magazine Amanhã (tomorrow). If you are interested in access the full interview at http://issuu.com/ricardo.vargas/docs/interview-amanha-newspaper. Interview in Brazilian Portuguese.
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Stockholm Syndrome
(Oct 27, 2008)
In this prodcast, Ricardo talks about the Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to projects. Ricardo shows that sometimes the project manager fails to report relevant events in order to not harm the relationship with the customer. This protective relationship to the customer can be bad for the project. This podcast was recorded only in Brazilian Portuguese. The link below is for the Brazilian Portuguese version.
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IPMA - International Project Management Association
(May 05, 2008)
In this podcast Ricardo explains who the International Project Management Association or IPMA is. He talks about the IPMA roles and how it operates in Brazi, as well as the available certifications and the certification process. This podcast was recorded only in Brazilian Portuguese. The link below is for the Brazilian Portuguese version.
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Discussion groups about Project management
(Apr 23, 2007)
This podcast is dedicated to the discussion groups about project management. Ricardo Vargas talks about the great variety of benefits that a discussion group provide to the professionals in the field. As an example, he talks about the E-Plan-BR, considered today the largest web based group about project management in Brazil.
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