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Crisis Management in Construction
Chips, Applications, Project Management

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0605 - Summary/Objective
0606 -
060601 - Followed up work at ref SDS 5 line 27.
060602 -
060603 - Received ref DRT 1 line 20 which is a flyer that notifies of the PMI
060604 - event on crisis management the cost is only $80 for members.
060605 -
060606 - The keynote speaker is a former state architect, Michael Bocchicchio,
060607 - who is no Assistant Vice President, Facilities, University of
060608 - California, Office of the President.  He will explain how UC met a
060609 - crisis implementing a $2.8 billion expansion.
060610 -
060611 - A lawyer will speak who worked on a recent accident at General
060612 - Chemical in Richmond, CA, ref DRT 1 line 87.  This relates to managing
060613 - a lot of personal injury claims from things like oil plant calamities,
060614 - railroad accidents and so on.
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060617 - PMI Seminars
060618 -
060619 - Received ref DRT 2 line 16 giving notice of a series of PM seminars
060620 - being held in Chicago on 960328 and in San Francisco on 960404.
060621 -
060622 -    The basic PM training ref DRT 2 line 16, and the seminar on
060623 -    influencing without authority ref DRT 2 line 33, might be good for
060624 -    people at organizations where reengineering has and is reducing the
060625 -    ranks of experienced project managers, ref SDS 3 line 321, and
060626 -    where there is concern about the quality of internal project
060627 -    management, ref SDS 1 line 168, ref SDS 1 line 280, and more
060628 -    recently at ref SDS 4 line 74.
060629 -
060630 -    Organizations that are shearing off project managers and replacing
060631 -    them with team leaders, ref SDS 3 line 321, will have a need to
060632 -    send the team leaders to project management training so they can
060633 -    learn the skills to manage projects that those let go learned from
060634 -    attending the seminar 15 years ago and from performing projects in
060635 -    ther intervening years.  They can get basic ideas, but
060636 -    organizations cannot replace the experience they are voluntarily
060637 -    eliminating.  Like a vibrant forest, it takes many years to grow a
060638 -    crop of strong project managers.
060639 -
060640 - Submitted ref DIT 1 line 30 to Morris via internet to transmit the
060641 - seminar notice for information, per above analysis.
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060644 -
060645 - The notice provides a good benchmark for pricing the Asilomar event.
060646 - These seminars cost $650 to $750 without room and meals, ref DRT 2
060647 - line 85, and offer a single instructor.  Asilomar will offer a wide
060648 - range of expertise on the primary source of management productivity:
060649 - communications.
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