Just ran across an interesting post about leadership tools on Kent Blumberg’s blog. Kent lists 15 ‘tools’ that are essential for a leader. In a nutshell, they are: 15 Essential Leadership Tools 1. Strategic vision. 2. Automatic focus. 3. A heart. 4. Input tools 5. A funny bone. 6. The ability to delegate. 7. Curiosity. [...]
Execution
January 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment
One of the most important things a leader can do (if not the most important) is to ensure that their organization executes the appropriate plans/actions to reach the organizations’ goals. Val Willis had an interesting post on Tom Peters’ blog about the recent Ford Motor Company announcement of record losses. In the post, Val discusses [...]
Book summaries in Wiki format
January 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Ran across an interesting Wiki for book summaries today. From Wiki Summaries: Free book summaries that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free summaries of books, plays and other written documents. There aren’t many summaries yet, but I expect there will be once more people find out about this Wiki. Check out Wiki Summaries @ http://wikisummaries.org/Main_Page [...]
Mike Griffiths on Agile Project Leadership
January 24, 2007 By 1 Comment
Mike Griffiths has a great post about Agile Project Leadership worth checking out. An excerpt worth sharing is: Management is concerned with mastering the mechanical knowledge and skills of how to run a project. Leadership builds on these skills to add the people based skills to increase the chance of the project team wanting to [...]
Management of Projects
January 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’ve recently decided to stop calling myself a Project Manager and start calling myself a Manager of Projects.There is a difference as I hope you will see in the next few paragraphs. I have 11 years experience in managing and delivering services to clients and during this time I gained plenty of project management experience [...]
Anyone up for some Self-Promotion?
January 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Of course My blog post titled “The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking” made it into this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, which was hosted by David Maister over on Passion, People and Principles. Although I didn’t make it onto David’s “posts I liked best list” I at least got a mention (as did anyone who submitted [...]
Earned Value Management – More than a “buzzword”
January 22, 2007 By 4 Comments
In my post titled “Earned Value Management – The next “buzzword” I belittled Earned Value Management (EVM)…and now its time to eat some crow, although some of my objections to EVM still stand. After doing more reading I realized the EVM can be a very powerful tool to use to manage and measure the performance [...]
Agile Project Management Resources
January 22, 2007 By 1 Comment
Building Trust
January 19, 2007 By 1 Comment
The blog “Slow Leadership” recently had a good post about Building Trust. An excerpt from the article is: Trust is an essential basis for a productive, satisfying and fun business environment. Suspicion corrodes working relationships and undermines people’s confidence in themselves and their colleagues. Leaders need to offer trust, since the only way to prove [...]
A review of Drucker’s “They’re not employees; they’re people”
January 18, 2007 By 1 Comment
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