--- title: Musings about leadership and management from a geeky perspective | Matthew Stibbe (3) description: Matthew is founder and CEO of Articulate Marketing. Writer, marketer, pilot, wine enthusiast and geek. Not necessarily in that order. Never at the same time. (3) image: https://geekboss.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Totoro-at-Studio-Ghibli-1.jpg --- Latest article 2 minute read ## [The Devil’s project management dictionary](https://geekboss.com/blog/the-devils-project-management-dictionary) By [Matthew Stibbe](https://geekboss.com/blog/author/matthew-stibbe) Ambrose Bierce wrote his famous ‘Devil’s Dictionary’ after the American Civil War. It was as funny as it was cynical. I have written a Devil’s... 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