Communication Management… Give Yourself the Gift of Patience 26 Jun 2014 Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? - Tao Te Ching Last Saturday I had plans to…
Communication Management… Critical Customer Requirements or Understanding Remy 12 Jun 201412 Jun 2014 Remy-chan is my one-eared white fluffy cat.* He’s lived with me for over 10 years. Keeping Remy happy and giving him a quality environment is very simple: Feed him cat…
Agile… PMXPO 2014: Worth Another Look 12 May 2014 For PMs with little free time and no money for conferences, online conferences on Project Management have started to spring up. PMXPO is one of the conferences taking advantage of the online…
books… Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Book Review 28 Apr 2014 “...You’re on the right path when you make decisions and take actions that are true to your values, diversity, passions and core goal - it’s the inside path of your…
conflict… Can our fears make us better Project Managers? 16 Apr 201416 Apr 2014 Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - Measure for Measure My least favorite thing on the planet are horror movies.…
Business Value… The Whys of Stakeholders 26 Mar 201426 Mar 2014 “As far as I can tell there are two inviolable truths about people and projects: - There’s a reason behind everything that everyone does on, to, for with, or against…
career… Back to the Essentials 14 Mar 2014 Last week when I read The No. 1 Time Management Mistake Capable People Make I was excited for half a day. Greg McKeown suggests that instead of multi-tasking madly, we…
Business Value… Lessons Learned from Japanese: For Project Management 17 Feb 2014 I am a linguaphile. Not one of those people who spend hours pouring over grammar books or looking up obscure words. My grammar has always been shaky and my…
Emotional Intelligence… Catching the Wind: Or why write meeting minutes? 20 Jan 2014 Oaths are but words and words are but wind - Samuel Butler There are moments during your day when could swear that you’ve already had this conversation before…. facilitated the…
Business Acumen… Avoid Email Recall: Or Five Suggestions to Cope with Email as a PM 12 Sep 2013 In spite of Microsoft's best efforts, I've never seen Outlook successfully recall a message. Once out there - you lose control of the message and how it's read. To avoid…