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,...
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.
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.
A mess is a "clean" slate onto which order is painted, drawn, crafted, etched, or discovered.
The quandary this poses is like that of an actor who discovers he has memorized the wrong part for the big play.