--- title: Musings about leadership and management from a geeky perspective | Miscellaneous description: Miscellaneous | Geeky management and leadership lessons plus random bits of video games, Lego and other geeky topics from Matthew Stibbe and Articulate Marketing. image: https://geekboss.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Totoro-at-Studio-Ghibli-1.jpg --- Latest article 5 minute read ## [Eight expensive lessons in project management, for free!](https://geekboss.com/blog/project-management-lessons) By [Matthew Stibbe](https://geekboss.com/blog/author/matthew-stibbe) When it comes to project management, it’s so much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes. So here are a few of mine! 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