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 birthday!
I started this blog on July 14, 2006 with a blog post titled “The Strategic Use of Human Resources“. My first post was an [...]
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 Scouts of America full time after working with them for 1.5 years as a consultant. Previous to starting full-time, I’d been leading the Sitecore Content Management System [...]
I read Seth Godin’s post titled “You’re Boring” the other day and shrugged my shoulders. OK Seth…most companies and products ARE boring…what’s new? Products have always been boring. So have companies.
I found myself bored with Seth after reading his “You’re Boring” post. In the post, he writes:
You don’t get unboring for free. Remarkable costs time [...]
I’m a big fan of writing and I’m always working on improving my writing. I read everything I can find about writing and am always on the lookout for new thoughts on how to improve my writing.
I found an interesting take on the subject written by Chris Brogan titled “Cultivating a Writing Habit“. Great post…jump [...]
My wife just asked me what my resolutions were for 2009. I normally don’t do ‘resolutions’ but the question, and the many blog posts about resolutions, started me thinking.
What is it about the changing of the ‘year’ that gets people into the mindset of making resolutions to do things differently in the ‘new year’?
Well…being the [...]
For those that caught my review of Zinsser’s On Writing Well, you may have noticed that I mentioned picking up Zinsser’s “Writing to Learn“.
This book is an easy read and is worth picking up if you’re interested in writing. The book is less of a discussion of ‘how’ to ‘write to learn’ and more of [...]
I just finished reading the 30th Anniversary Edition of On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser and I’m wiser for having read it.
I can sum this book up easily/quickly with this sentence:
If you want to improve your writing, buy this book…then write write write.
What a great book!
Up until this book I thought that writing ’serious’ [...]
I’ve had a book review published in the latest PMI Information Technology & Telecom Newsletter (download the PDF here). You’ll find my book review on page 16.
The newsletter is published quarterly and is described as:
Our newsletter is filled with activities that took place in the third quarter of 2008, including our visit to ProjectWorld Toronto 2008 and [...]
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 help with the creative process if the act of mind-mapping and brainstorming.
I have experienced the technique of brainstorming and have used it quite often within my teams and [...]
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:
http://college.hmco.com/business/resources/casestudies/students/
There is an interesting PDF file that describes the process of writing case studies that looks very interesting.
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