So much of my work life has been lost to long, tedious, low-value gatherings called either "status meetings" or "progress meetings." As a project manager, I certainly believe in the importance of getting the team into the same room (or conference call) at the same time. But too often, I've had to join status...
I believe that project managers should tend bar sometime early in their careers. I doubt this conviction will prompt a change in the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification process, but the concept is worth investigating. So much can be learned from preparing the bar for business, making and serving drinks, ferrying platters of hot food,...
During a graduation party for my college-bound goddaughter Melinda, I sat down at a picnic table and hastily wrote out a few lines to include in the card we gave her...
I recently enjoyed hearing this great quote from Joseph Campbell, prolific author in comparative mythology and religion: A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. This could be the basis for a whole new psychology about the human/computer interface. Everybody knows some poor soul who gapes...
Richard Condie is one of the funniest and most imaginative animators to come out of the National Film Board of Canada. I remember laughing myself to tears watching one of his pieces called "The Apprentice" at a Toronto film festival in 1992.
If you want to see where desktop Linux and open-source software is making a difference, you should hear what some young people in inner-city Camden, New Jersey have to say now that they've experienced it for themselves.
Yesterday, Mann posted an update to a slide deck he produced earlier this year for MacWorld about truly understanding the real importance of your minutes and focus.
What I'm enjoying is how much commonality exists in the effort to plan, design, and deploy these two new portals.
A mess is a "clean" slate onto which order is painted, drawn, crafted, etched, or discovered.
I think microblogging like Twitter helps procrastinators and perfectionists actually publish something blog-like without thinking about it as much.