The Jan 15 2007 BusinessWeek Magazine has an article about Bob Nardelli’s ouster at Home Depot (another good article about his ouster is at the New York Times). The BusinessWeek article of Nardelli’s ouster doesn’t contain any new information, but it does bring up Nardelli’s apparent ego and stubbornness and his approach to running Home [...]
Building Buzz for yourself
January 7, 2007 By 2 Comments
During my usual Sunday evening read through my favorite blogs, I read an interesting post at the Brazen Careerist titled “How to build buzz around yourself“. I am a big believer in networking and building relationships and this post gives some good advice for networking and building buzz for yourself. The key points about how [...]
Service-Oriented Project Management
January 5, 2007 By 6 Comments
Until reading Jerry Manas‘ white paper titled “Service Oriented Project Management” (SOPM) I had never heard this term before (have I been hiding under a rock somewhere?). Thanks to The Project Management Podcast for bringing it to my attention. The basic tenant of SOPM is that it adopts philosophies from the professional services and consulting [...]
Survey shows trust in management is declining
January 5, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Management Issues has an interesting article about the apparent decline of trust that employees have in management. The article, titled “Fewer than half of U.S workers trust their boss“, discusses the results of a recent Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey (see results here) that shows that less than half of US workers now trust their managers [...]
Free program from Lisa Haneberg
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Quought for the Day* – David Maister
January 4, 2007 By 1 Comment
Rajesh Setty at Life Beyond Code has been posting “Quought for the Day*” posts for the last few weeks (see the end of this post for the definition of Quought). These “Quoughts” are very thought provoking and interesting and are included in my daily blog reading. The “Quought for the Day” for January 1, 2007 [...]
Trusted Advisor Associates on Not Exceeding Expectations
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Trusted Advisor Associates has a great post titled “Trust Tip 38: Don’t Exceed Expectations” that is definitely worth a read. A nice quote from the post is provided below: There’s nothing wrong with an occasional surprise to the upside. But engineered surprises, delivered regularly, degrade trust. You can’t afford them. Don’t exceed expectations: set them [...]
Stephen Seay- Description of Roles within Projects
January 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Earned Value Management – The next ‘buzzword’?
January 3, 2007 By 1 Comment
Projects@Work has a new article titled “(L)earned Value” that discusses the ‘new trend’ of implementing Earned Value Management (EVM) systems for use within an organization’s project teams. According to Projects@Work, EVM is: An EVM system effectively integrates the project scope of work with cost, schedule and performance elements for optimum project planning and control. The [...]
Happy New Year Everyone
January 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
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