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This is a bit of a break from my normal blogging, but I felt like sharing a quick self-hosted wordpress tip that others might find useful. In my regular

July marks the 5th year of existance of this blog. On July 14 2006 I pushed 'publish' on my first post.  That post - titled The Strategic Use of Human

As I write this, I'm sitting on my couch at the house trying to watch a rerun of The Office and trying to relax a bit....but my attempt at a quiet

Earlier this month I saw an announcement from one of my favorite blogs - Trust Matters, written by Trusted Advisor Associates - about being selected as a

A few weeks ago, I was asked by the folks over at InfoBOOM to provide my predictions for 2011 for technology, business and IT. After receiving that

As I've done for the past two years (see my 3 words for 2009 and 3 words for 2010), its time to share my three words for 2011.  I got the idea for this

It's Thanksgiving Day here in the USA. I'm spending this day of thanks with my wife, Mother-in-Law and her two dogs.  While we normally spend Thanksgiving

I've just joined IBM's InfoBOOM community. I hadn't heard of InfoBOOM until last week when I was asked to join as one of their compensated experts.  I was

I've got a tight timeline on a research project. I'm working on a paper to submit for an Conference on IT Project Management...fun!.  Because of this

My first post on this blog was July 14 2006...exactly four years ago I posted an excerpt from a paper I wrote in my MBA program in a post titled The

Jurgen Appelo over at Noop.nl has release his list of the Top 150 Management & Leadership Blogs....and I'm on it.  As the kids say...Woot! (I think

What would happen if you stopped everything you do online? What if you stopped: Blogging Tweeting Facebooking (is that a word?) Linking Commenting

Update - My original post was titled "A milestone - 4 years old". Apparently I can't count :)  I started the blog in 2006 so it's my blog's THIRD

2009 is half over and its been a pretty good year so far. What's transpired this year? In February, I put my consulting practice on hold to join the Boy

OK...now that I've riled up "America's Greatest Marketer" by calling him Boring, how about I show some love for some folks who are saying some great

I recently installed IntenseDebate on my blog and started playing around with the tools available to me.  I noticed that I can easily stats of posts and

Its that time of year again.  No...not the holidays.  It's time for me to change my blog around again :) I've changed the theme to the Contender

Mike Sebastian, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at SourceCheck....and a great guy to boot, has recently had an article published on InsideARM titled "The

Do you know who Tyler Durden is? (hint: Brad Pitt played him in Fight Club). Lateral Action posted Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation recently (hat tip

Management Issues had an article on Sept 25 titled "Looking after talent is vital in a downturn" that gave me hope when I saw the title. The article

W. Clement Stone said: “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys

I'm quoted in the local newspaper regarding a local City Councilman and ex-teacher who bought a 'degree' from a diploma mill.

Management Issues (MI) reported today on a survey by Careerbuilder.com that says that many US workers are losing faith in their senior leaders.  MI

This book was recommended to me by an acquaintance a few weeks ago...I'm glad they mentioned it.  I grabbed this book to read while spending last week on

Not everyone can be #1! :) Just a quick note that my little ol' blog made it in the top 100 on Noop.NL's list of Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers

I'll be on vacation for the next week (Sept 6 through 13).  Like always, I've picked the absolute worst time to go somewhere....we are on our way to North

In July, I was approached by Andy King to see if I'd be interested in reviewing his new book from O'Reilly titled "Website Optimization: Speed, Search

The 21st annual CIO 100 list has just been delivered. The article leading up to the list of the CIO 100 is quite interesting..I'm reading things like

OK...I probably don't have to review the The Fifth Discipline.  It's a classic...everyone has read it.  Bas de Baar had an excellent review of this book

I think I found it....and it happened to me. Warning...small rant. Imagine you are a hiring manager trying to find someone to lead a group of IT

As mentioned here and here, I presented a paper titled "Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome" at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas

Just a reminder...the 2nd Annual University of Texas Project Management Symposium is today and tomorrow (August 18 & 19). Yours truly will be

Charles Green is giving a live webinar on How to Build Trust in Sales Conversations on Thursday August 21.  The webinar looks like a good one...as is most

CIO.com has an interview with Linus Torvalds that I'd just had to share...very interesting commentary from Linus on managing software projects. In the

Instead of a book review like the last two Fridays, I wanted to throw my current reading list up and get any comments and/or recommendations for other

Perhaps you've read my rant on Blu Domain...maybe you haven't.  If not, feel free to click over and read it here. Well...today I'm going to praise

Timothy Johnson takes a swipe at methodologies in his post titled "Worshipping the Hammer".  To be more accurate, he takes a swipe at those people who

John P. Kotter, author of "Leading Change" and "Our Iceberg is Melting" is set to release a new book titled "a sense of urgency" (release date September 3

This is a guest post by Heather Johnson, who writes on the subject of how to become a nurse. She invites your feedback at heatherjohnson2323 at gmail dot

Jim Champy's new book titled "Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't" is an interesting book.  It's short and easy to read...and full of some

Peter Vajda has a great post over on Slow Leadership titled "Why People Resist Change" that is well worth the time to read. Peter argues that the reasons

There's an interesting story on ReadWriteWeb (RWW) and the Wall Street Journal this week about Social Networking failures in the enterprise. An excerpt

I was reminded this past weekend by Bruce Henry that I sometimes push "publish" much too quickly on a blog post. Go read my post titled "Leadership and

Just finished reading "Moose on the Table"by Jim Clemmer. Before I get into the review, let me define "moose on the table."  According to the author, it

Michael Hugos had a really good post on CIO.com titled "Agility Means Simple Things Done Well, Not Complex Things Done Fast" that provided the best

I recently ran across a survey by Accretive Solutions (formerly Horn Murdock Cole, Dickson Allan, BF Consultants, and CFO Service) discussing the results

Recently, while reading a book on Organizational Change and Project Management, I noticed a disturbing pattern. The book I was reading discusses the

Just finished up reading "The Milkshake Moment" by Steven S. Little. This is an interesting, well-written book worth picking up.  It's easy to read with

A recent study by researchers at University of Michigan and University of Richmond shows that outsourcing/offshoring certain aspects of your business can

I was browsing the local Half Price Books and noticed a book titled "The Program Management Office: Establishing, Managing And Growing the Value of a PMO"

Ok....so I got tired of the accordion menu on my blog. You know...the new menu that had my latest post, consulting info, academic info, etc? It was cool

The Daily WTF...that great website that always makes me giggle also makes me cringe.   I giggle at the humorous situations...but cringe at the reality of

I've been holding off on this announcement until I finished the paper (mainly to make sure I actually finished it!). I'll be speaking at University of

A friend of mine was applying for an IT position posted on a staffing/recruiting company website. The position was for Director of IT for a Dallas energy

Where I come from (small town Oklahoma), silos are part of life for dairy farmers.  A silo is a good thing...it stores grains (we called it sileage) to

I asked the following question on LinkedIn earlier this week and received some very insightful responses: What are the top challenges in IT organization's

In a recent posts, I've mentioned employee engagement (more on the topic here, here and here)...I've had a few emails from readers asking me to give some

This book,  with the full title of "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies" is a must read for anyone trying to figure out how

Carmine Coyote had a great post over on Slow Leadership today titled "The More Meetings, The Less Trust". The introductory paragraph sums it up nicely

One thing that I've heard often is that a project manager role is a good thing for your career and will help your ascent up the ladder to more

I had some time this weekend and used it to catch up on some reading.  One of the books I read was Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson's "Why Work Sucks and

The topic of Information Technology Strategy is one that is near and dear to my heart.  In fact, I've harped on this subject a few times (a few posts for

Short post today...but powerful (at least I think so). Great post over at Carpe Factum today titled "Are You Botox-ing Your Organization?". Not much I can

If you'd like to know the answer that question, I have a new book for you to read: "Why Work Sucks" by Cali and Jody. This book (which I haven't started

Discusses the need to lead information technology

If you are interested in software development...read this book. If you aren't interested in software development...read this book. If you've always

I just finished reading The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership by Jack Ferraro....not a bad book. In section two of his

Interesting study released by McKinsey has just been released titled "How companies respond to competitors: A McKinsey Global Survey." The study, which is

If you didn't believe my ramblings in "Common Sense and Technology Selection", I've got a nice anecdotal (and funny) story that backs up my assertion that

Interesting analysis today over on Jeffrey Phillips' Thinking Faster Blog in an article titled "Productivity Barriers". Note: if you have an interest in

Aligning business and information technology by hiring the right people. Implementing Human Capital Management practices to ensure alignment.

Employee engagement has been seen as a 'buzzword' for some time but also been touted as something that every organization should focus on. It appears that

Just an fyi to those that visit my site occasionally....I've just made a change on the 'look and feel' of the site. Hope you like it. Changes: Moved to a

Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Section titled "Keeping it Simple Pays for a Champion Coder". The article points to the

It's been a while since I've railed against bad customer service....namely because I've not been too upset with the various services that I've received.

When did common sense get removed from the corporate technology selection process? For those that don't know what it is, technology selection is the

I had the following stated to me today in a meeting: "Cost is a fact, Price is a decision" What a great quote and very true. The cost of a product or

This post is an excerpt of a recent paper titled "Improving Knowledge in Projects."

Heard a wonderful story last week from a developer friend of mine and thought I'd share (with commentary of course!). He had taken a full-time job at an

This is a guest post written by Heather Johnson, who regularly writes on the topic of career exploration. See her byline at the end of this article for

Management issues had posted another article (see the previous one here and my comments on the topic here) topic titled "Still suspicious of flexible

Over the last few years I've started noticing a trend toward specialization within the field of project management. These specializations seem to break

Management Issues recently published an article titled "Flexible working boosts the bottom line" that reports on some very interesting research results

Well...my wife and I are about to head back to Dallas from Yosemite. The trip was a great one. We spent three days in Yosemite, a day in Kings Canyon /

I'm going to be taking a break from Sunday April 20 to Sunday April 28th. My wife and I are going to Yosemite, San Fransisco and other locales in Northern

I had some technical difficulties today with my website...I changed hosts and it looks like I'm having problems with the DNS changes propagating...I think

One of the projects I've been working on over the last few months is the implementation and customization of a Content Management System (CMS). The CMS

In a previous post titled "The Daily WTF: “Job Interview 2.0?", I talked about an interviewee's response to an interviewer asking him to "Design a House"

One of my assignments in my Knowledge Management Class had me read and review am article using PowerPoint. I've just submitted the assignment and wanted

I've been tagged by Jim Stroup at Managing Leadership to provide a listing of the books that I'm currently reading and/or are on my bookshelf.

If you don't know The Daily WTF, you should...most of the content is programmer related (and usually goes over my head) but some of the content is quite

Some of you may know what my wife is a photographer (semi-pro) and that I've previously mentioned that 'Photography is Tough'.....well...I think I've

In case you've noticed the little "Zemified" icon (and even if you haven't), I've started using Zemanta on my blog and like it quite a bit. I'm running

A comment left by Raven on my post titled "Is Perfect Worth It?" led me to her post titled "Personal Growth Article: The 3 P’s: Perfectionism,

Timothy Johnson, author of the Carpe Factum blog (great blog...check it out), had an interesting St. Patrick's Day post titled "The Luck of the Irate"

In early March, Mind Hacks had an interesting article titled "Are you experienced? Does it matter?" which adds another wrinkle to my the argument I made

Just finished reading the book "It's Your Ship" by Mike Abrashoff. At first glance, this book looks like it would be something that I wouldn't like at

Check out the recent post from Bas de Baar over on Project Shrink...it features 3 of the posts that I'm most proud of. Bas asked me for a list of the

Just registered for WordCamp Dallas 2008...looking forward to seeing meeting some very interesting folks....especially looking forward to Matt Mullenweg's

"Don't let perfect ruin good" That's what Harry Beckwith, author of "Selling the Invisible" has to say on the subject. He goes on to say the following:

I've been reading up on knowledge management topics (due to one of my classes being "Knowledge Management") and have found that there is a nice subset of

For those that haven't read about it, I had some problems with my brand new Saturn Aura last year. I had the car for 4 months and only got to drive it ~

I'm just finishing up "The Go-Giver" by Bob Burg and John David Mann. My review in two words: "Love it". The book is a 'business parable' (whatever that

As some of you may know, I've talked about agile methodologies in software development in previous blog posts (see links below). The topic of Agile

I've been a little quite lately due to being extremely busy with the Boy Scouts of America. We recently migrated the main site from a flat file HTML

I just read an interesting article at Tyner Blain titled "Specializing Generalists and the Politics of Agile"that is a good follow up to my "Better to be

Jeff Attwood over at Coding Horror wrote a great article titled "The Years of Experience Myth" that everyone should add to their 'must read' list. The

I'm sure most of us have heard of "Buzzword Bingo" and some have probably played it a time or too. It's a fun game that should get people thinking about

It seems like I've had this discussion recently with quite a few people...not sure if its because I like the topic or if lots of other people like it to.

"Employee Engagement" is one of those 'buzzwords' that you hear thrown about quite a bit...but this is a buzzword that should be carefully thought about

I have an official offer to replace my Saturn Aura.. I can select from any GM product and have settled on a Saab 93.   We'll see how the process goes- but

Well...it looks like Saturn might be doing the right thing now. Just received a call from Saturn's National Assistance Center and was told that they will

90% of the work is completed in 10% of the time....the remaining 10% of the effort is completed in 90% of the scheduled time. I've heard of the 80/20

I found this book last weekend at the local Half-Price Books and thought I'd give it a read. This well known book, and its author Nicholas Carr, has been

For background, see here, here, here, here and here. Car has been in the shop for a week now with no response from the dealership. Saturn National

For background, see here, here, here and here. The car is back in the shop....waiting to hear from the dealership on the prognosis. FYI - I'm filing the

Diamond Consultants released the results of their Digital IQ Survey recently (download the full survey here) that provides some very interesting (and

I've just completed my first semester of my doctoral program and I'm ready for a break. I took 2 courses this semester worth 6 hours. The courses are:

Check out Scot Herrick's Cube Rules blog, especially the new series that started with "Laid Of -- A new journey begins." Scot and his wife were both laid

I finally got my new 30MB/15MB FIOS service installed (see here for more info) Wow...here's the result of my speed test:   Verizon FIOS, Broadband

For background, see here, here and here. I picked up my Saturn Aura today from Saturn of Plano...so far, so good. I received a call today at ~3:30 telling

For background, see here and here. Received a call Monday afternoon (December 10) and was told that the tool that the dealership was waiting on had

Read an interesting article on GigaOm yesterday titled "Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage" (go read it if you haven't). This post, and

Background info is here. I *think* the shop has it narrowed down to one computer and they are now waiting for a tool to check connectors for that

On August 31 2007 my wife and I bought new cars. She bought a Saturn Vue and I got a Saturn Aura XR. The day was great and we were both excited.... Until

I just finished reading "Reinventing Project Management" by Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir and I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. The full

I've been looking for a remote location to store off-site backups and have tried a lot of different services and I thought I found the answer with a

Just finished upgrading my Verizon FIOS Internet to 30Mbps download speed and 15Mbps upload speed...what a wonderful thing technology is. Now I can access

Excerpt from a paper on Information Technology Human Capital as Competitive Advantage, covering IT-business alignment and human capital management.

I'm about half-way through an advance copy of David Maister's latest book titled Strategy and the Fat Smoker and I have to say I like what I've read so

HR World has a new article titled "30 Interview Questions You Can't Ask and 30 Sneaky, Legal Alternatives to Get the Same Info". At first, the title

Raven from Raven's Brain (great blog by the way...check it out) tagged me in her recent post titled "Meme me me me me.." Now...I've already shared 8

I wanted to take some time to simplify my discussion of Resource Diversity and Resource Immobility from my post titled "Competitive Advantage and the

As a follow up to my previous post titled Competitive Advantage - The Human Capital Approach, I wanted to take a second to talk a little bit about the

I was asked recently to describe how an organization can use its human capital to create competitive advantage. I fell into the trap of using Porter's

Anyone catch Ben Worthen's article on the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Blog? The article, titled "Shocking New Survey: Employees Willfully

I've been using Thunderbird for about 3 months since moving from Gmail to Fusemail and have been fairly happy with it. There are a few quirks that I could

I thought I was fairly intelligent when it comes to technology, software and gadgets....until I met the world of photography. Wow. I feel like such a

There are tons of websites, articles and blogs about how to build a relationship with your clients. Much has been written about fostering long term

This update is an easy one: I love Fusemail. As I noted in my post titled "Moving from Gmail to Fusemail", Gmail wasn't quite cutting it for me and I

So here I am....a consultant. I've been operating independently for a while now and have come to the following conclusions: The 'problem' is very rarely

Received my first piece of hate mail this evening. Maybe hate is too strong of a word...maybe I should use 'critical feedback' mail. In the email, the

Its amazing to see what passion can do to a person....and an organization. My wife Tracie and a business partner (Marcy) officially launched their

I've just realized that my migration to the https://ericbrown.com domain from http://ericbrownpm.com didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped. Apparently, email

Apologies to all...I'm currently redesigning my site with a new theme (I'm using the Revolution Theme now). The redesign should be painless and hopefully

As a follow up to my previous post titled "Dress Codes at Work", I wanted to present the following hypothetical question to my readers. You work for a

Do workplace dress codes matter? A look at the debate, with the best take: let people be comfortable and build a culture where thoughts, not labels, impress.

My resume has been updated and a PDF version is available for download. I'd welcome input and/or feedback on this updated version of my resume.

Things have been a little quite on my blog recently due to being busy in coursework for my doctorate at Dakota State University. The Fall 2007 semester is

If you could only read 1 blog...which one would it be? If I was limited to only one blog, I'd choose to read Scott Adam's "The Dilbert Blog". The blog is

I've recently run into problems with my yahoo account. I've owned this particular account since 1997 and have diligently paid yahoo $20 a year for the

I recently finished reading Mass Career Customization, the newly released book from Deloitte's Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg (published by Harvard

Have you ever walked into an interview with a preconceived notion of the job you were interviewing for and after during/after the interview you felt that

This post is a follow up to my post titled "Employee Onboarding". Research reported on a recent Management Issues article titled "How to lose half your

Articles and books about Innovation are everywhere. Every organization talks about increasing innovation...and they talk...and they talk. Instead of

I've moved my blog to the new domain (https://ericbrown.com) and have changed the name to "Aligning Technology Strategy People and Projects'...although

I'm always amazed how to hard it is for some people/firms to understand that communication is a major reason for project success or failure. For example,

Recently I was asked this question by a potential client and was at a loss for words for a few minutes...I'd never really thought about this before. My

As some of you may have read in my previous post titled "I've been tagged...8 Random Facts", I used to lift weights and compete as a powerlifter while in

Organization Alignment seems like one of those 'touchy feely' things that most technical folks would rather not discuss but it's actually quite relevant

While out at dinner one evening this week I happened to be following a large SUV with an advertisement for a local insurance agent painted on it. I'd seen

First off...let me answer the question: Does it matter if I use Agile or Waterfall methodologies in my project? My opinion is no...it doesn't matter...but

Chapter 13 of "What were they thinking" by Jeffrey Pfeffer has some excellent advice for hiring managers....the chapter, titled 'Resumes Don't Tell" has a

I'd like to point out Mike Sigers' post titled "Can a Salesman Learn to Pitch?" on his Simplenomics blog. In this post, Mike recounts a story of a

Over the weekend, my wife and I went out to a restaurant for dinner to celebrate her birthday. This particular restaurant is very well known in town and

I will be making a few minor changes to this blog. The domain name is changing and I am thinking of changing the name of the blog...I have setup a poll

Billy McCafferty over at Devlicio.us just published a short blog post titled "Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development" that contains some excellent

If you ever want to know what Customer Service truly is and is not, let your Air Conditioner fail and start calling AC Repair companies. Our AC went out

I recently turned a six month consulting project into a 1 month project...and I couldn't be happier. The client saved ~$1.5 million and they were able to

Steve Neiderhauser has a very good post titled "Product Management through Options" that discusses the need to use options when designing new products. An

I finally got fed up with a very small 'feature' in Gmail and moved to FuseMail today. The 'feature' is the 'On Behalf of' feature that shows email

Tridenta is a Dallas based IT consulting company who recently started a blog....and so far, it looks like they've started out on the right foot. I've been

Five practical interviewing tips for hiring managers — be prepared, have a conversation, and stop reading canned questions. Plus a real cautionary tale.

A case study on using agile project management methods to deliver a software product in half the time at less than half the cost.

Jim Stroup of "Managing Leadership" tagged me recently in his post titled "Random Day 1"...guess its time to jump in with some random facts. I haven't

Why hiring based on GPA and pedigree fails organizations. Real stories from engineering leaders who built great teams by looking beyond binary credentials.

Looks like an interesting little fad out on the net now is to search for a Googlenope. What is this? According to the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten,

Starting a Doctor of Science in Information Systems at Dakota State University — why I chose the program, my specialization, and other schools I considered.

I've been re-reading "Clients for Life" by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel and saw a very nice piece of advice about ensuring that your message to your

I've been doing quite a bit of reading lately on Agile Software Development and Agile Project Management and have come to the conclusion that the folks

MS Project has become an industry standard for project planning and I think it has value for a project manager, but a project manager should not rely on

A candid rant about broken recruiting practices, recycled blog content, and overhyped business books — honest frustrations and notes to organizations.

I just finished the book "Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide" by Craig Larman. This book provides a very good overview for managers of

Sally Lemke, a nurse in the Chicago area, was named VNA Foundation "Super Star" on July 10th. She'll be without a Job on July 30th according to the

CIO.com has an article titled "Intel's E-Mail Overload Solution" that describes the steps Intel is taking to combat email overload. What I found

If you haven't seen the "Project Cartoon", you need too. The original can be found here at http://www.projectcartoon.com and they've now given people the

Charles Green over at "Trust Matters Blog" has a pretty good post titled "Credentials, Elitism and Web 2.0" that discusses the 'credential' problem in the

According to a few blogs I ran across today, RFP's are evil. Read these posts here RFP's are Evil - From Brains on Fire Blog RFP's are Still Evil - From

Why hiring only top-tier MBA graduates creates dangerous uniformity. Ricardo Semler's case for building diverse organizational culture through broader hiring.

...and I actually am starting to like it. I know that I've previously said I disliked Vista (see Rediscovering Linux (via Ubuntu) and Ubuntu is Ubye-bye)

Why the sink-or-swim approach to employee onboarding fails and what companies should do instead. Lessons from research and real experience.

I've been reading Ricardo Semler's phenomenal book "The Seven Day Weekend" and just ran across this quote: Cash on hand, revenue, and profits are

Jonathan Farrington has an excellent blog post on his Leadership Turn blog that that I think is wonderful. The post, titled "Six Steps to help you achieve

Five common hiring challenges — from writing job descriptions to onboarding — and practical ways to overcome them to attract and retain great people.

The April 2007 Harvard Business Review has an article by Steelcase CEO James P. Hackett titled "Preparing for the Perfect Product Launch" that discusses

looks like the gremlins showed up today....I have found a few missing Blog posts. Will try to revive them if I can find them.

It's been quite a while since I've been impressed with a Microsoft product, but I will say that Project Server 2007 has impressed me. In addition to

Six keys to setting new team members up for success — from buddy systems to culture orientation — and what happens when managers skip onboarding basics.

Sorry for the title...but I thought it was funny. In a previous post titled "Rediscovering Linux (via Ubuntu)" I discussed my newfound 'toy' in Ubuntu

In my many years of school and independent reading, I've run across a lot of theories about Leadership. Each theory seems to have its own idea of what it

I had an old Dell 8250 sitting around (after purchasing a new Dell E521) and I decided to install Linux to see how the distributions were doing these

As a follow-up to my post titled "Buying a New Computer", I wanted to let every know {start sarcasm} what a great experience using Vista is {end sarcasm}.

For as long as I can remember, I have been looking for a simple way to capture tasks for later review. I've looked at many different time management

If you see any quirks with this blog/website please let me know (via comments or email). I have recently setup this blog to update the blogging engine

It seems like an eternity since I've posted something here but its only been three weeks. I've been busy getting settled into a new job...I'm now working

A few things have occurred over the last week that have led me to purchase a new desktop computer....which of course allows me to get all nerdy/geeky and

If you haven't read the post earlier this week about Godaddy's customer service, you really didn't miss much...other than a rant from me about how bad

This story has been around for a week or so but it was interesting enough (to me at least) to share. The 27B Stroke 6 blog over at Wired.com has an

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed recently, but my blog (and a few other websites I have on the same server) has been running slowly...so I decided to

When I first heard of participative management, I thought that it must be some 'new fad' (which isn't true at all) and after reading a few things about

There are many books, articles and blog posts about improving Customer Service. For example, a Google search for "Improve Customer Service" results in

Jack's Notebook, written by Gregg Fraley, is a business novel in the same vein as those by Patrick Lencioni and Eli Goldratt. This book uses a fictional

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software had an interesting post on his blog titled "Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service". The seven steps aren't anything

Shadow IT has been defined by George Spafford in his article titled The Dangers that Lurk Behind Shadow IT as: ...groups providing information technology

Mindjet is hosting a webinar about Service-Oriented Project Management with Jerry Manas on March 7, 2007. More information is available at the Mindjet

This definition is from Rob Millard at the Adventure of Strategy Blog in a recent post. Successful strategy is not about a grand plan. Rather, it is an

Many other bloggers (Hal Macomber for one) have already discussed this report, but I wanted to say a quick word about it as well. The report, from the

A great story over on David Maister's Passion, People and Principles blog titled A Case Study In professional Ethics. Its a great story about integrity,

The Slow Leadership blog has an interesting post about "Practicing Conscious Incompetence". What is Conscious Incompetence? In a nutshell, it is the act

Mike Schaffner over at the "Beyond Blinking Lights" blog has an interesting post titled "Let's Get Strategic!" that discusses the need for IT groups to

You've no doubt heard the term "sheep" applied to people who follow others blindly. You know the the people who buy the new 'hot' music album. The people

Do you consider yourself a good leader? How about a good listener? According to Larry Spears, CEO of the Greenleaf Center, one of the top 10 skills that a

Ran across an interesting blog written by Rhett Laubach titled "Personal Leadership Insight" has a lot of interesting ideas about leadership. One

In the past few weeks I've been reading about creative and critical thinking and the creative process. One of the things that many people recommend to

The February 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains one of the best articles I've read in that journal in quite a while. The article,

Another great post by Charles on his Trusted Advisor Associates blog "Trust Matters". In the post, Charles is describing why he has named his blog "Trust

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,

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

Ran across an interesting Wiki for book summaries today. From Wiki Summaries: Free book summaries that anyone can edit! WikiSummaries.org provides free

Mike Griffiths has a great post about Agile Project Leadership worth checking out. An excerpt worth sharing is: Management is concerned with mastering the

The recent IEEE Engineering Management newsletter had a link to an excellent Case Study reference guide...thought I'd post it here for everyone else:

Dr. Bass passed away on December 1, 2006. From the University of Texas at Dallas' webpage: (1926-2006) Dr. Frank M. Bass, often called the “Father of

In a 2003 article in Harvard Business Review, the article titled "The Five Minds of a Manager" written by Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg, the

According to Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Project Portfolio Management (PPM) should be something that every project manager should embrace...and I agree.

An article on the British Computer Society's website titled "Companies claim formal IT qualifications unimportant" discusses a survey performed by IT

I just ran across a post by Michael Krigsman titled "Eight Causes of IT Project Failure". According to a recent report from the UK National Audit office

Recently I've been involved in helping a good friend (we'll call him Jim) search for a job. He has been unemployed now for quite some time and he is

A story broke on Tuesday December 5th in the Dallas morning News (DMN) about the Dallas Independent School District's new head of the Office of District

I was just reading through one of my favorite blogs (David Maister's People, Passion and Principles) and was delighted to read about David listening to

Prior to reading the new Businessweek (Dec 11th 2006), I ran across Web Worker Daily's (WWD) post about the article and the way in which Best Buy is

Was reading a post on David Maister's blog about the method in which Pfizer may or may not be using email to let their workforce know if they are part of

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. To read the entire article, download the PDF titled "Strategic Project Management."

This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. The modern

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA.

This is an excerpt of a paper I wrote while working on my MBA. One