Business Value… Self-Improvement: Looking for your Blind Spots 10 Jan 2015 Have you finished your goal-setting for 2015? How did you do it? Apart from external feedback, it can be hard to assess where you need to focus because of your…
Business Acumen… Is Good Strategy also Good Project Management? 16 Sep 2014 Picture This: You’re in the middle of a constantly changing terrain - where your resources, external influences and even the tactical objectives can change overnight. Your objective: to navigate through a valley…
books… Manage Conflict Through Discovery? 2 Aug 2014 There’s more than one way to skin a cat. This is a very old saying essentially meaning there is more than one way to get to your goal. Most people…
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…
books… PMP Renewal Time: Random Thoughts 29 Jan 2012 There are weeks that I hate being a project manager. On those weeks my job seems to be an endless round of... Jumping through bureaucratic hoops 'Playing Telephone' Managing myself…
books… Magic Eight Ball Wisdom for New Project Managers 9 Jan 2010 Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. -Carolyn Wells If I had created the world... Ice cream would be calorie-free and...…
books… Good Reads from 2009: Part 2 2 Jan 20102 Jan 2010 "Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." John Locke As my last post of 2009 and my first post…
books… Good Reads from 2009: Part 1 26 Dec 200916 Jan 2010 “I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense." - Harold Kushner In 2009, I made a commitment…
Agile… Bug on a Windshield: Personal Effectiveness, Project Management and Fun 21 Nov 2009 It’s the third week of the month again. If you’re new here, the third week of every month, I pull together all the links that I’ve run into since last…
books… Book Review: Make Your Own Luck 14 Nov 200914 Nov 2009 Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is…
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