EB
Nov 18, 2010
Is Project Management a skill or a technique?

Shim Marom wrote a nice piece titled Project Management – Technique or Discipline? where he asks a question that's been gnawing at me for some time. That

EB
Nov 16, 2010
How do we “fix” Project Failures?

A few months ago I wrote a post titled Cognitive Dissonance & IT. From that post, you'll remember that cognitive dissonance is: an uncomfortable

EB
Nov 14, 2010
Links for November 14 2010

Why Best Practices Are Hard to Practice by Ron Ashkenas on Harvard Business Review Quote: One of the characteristics of great companies is that they

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Nov 12, 2010
Foto Friday – Cardinal Taking Flight

Went out to my regular birding location this weekend and captured this Cardinal while he was about to take off. The light wasn't great but I liked this

EB
Nov 11, 2010
A Veterans Day Thank You

This post is a bit off topic from the norm but I wanted to take this opportunity to say Thank You to anyone who's ever served in the armed forces. For

EB
Nov 9, 2010
Are we treating the symptoms, or the real problem?

Lately, I've been having a lot of knee pain.  For the last few months, its been constant and regular and seemed to get worse when I would spend a lot of

EB
Nov 7, 2010
Links for November 7 2010

Hey, Chief, back your people up! by Dave Grossi on PoliceOne Daily One Quote: What really gets my Italian blood boiling is this incessant need by police

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Nov 5, 2010
Foto Friday – Road to the Horizon

This is a capture I took while out at Zion National Park earlier this year. Taken at the side of the road while taking a break from driving. Not sure I

EB
Nov 4, 2010
Time for IT to Evolve

Mark McDonald over on Gartner's blog network wrote a great piece this week titled Everything is up for grabs, making it a great time to be in IT. In the

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Nov 2, 2010
On Change

I've been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link).   If you haven't read the

EB
Oct 31, 2010
Links for October 31 2010

The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New

EB
Oct 29, 2010
Foto Friday – Dallas Zoo Lioness

Here's a quick shot of one of the female lions at the Dallas Zoo. This was taken through glass....which normally doesn't work real well. Turned out

EB
Oct 28, 2010
Complexity & IT

Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft. After it was announced that he was leaving, he published a memo on his blog. The memo, titled Dawn of  a New Day,  is an

EB
Oct 26, 2010
The Next Level by Scott Eblin – Book Review

Late last week I received The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition by Scott Eblin (amazon affiliate link) from Daniel

EB
Oct 24, 2010
Links for October 24 2010

Are You Really Marketing or Just Advertising? by Alan Belniak on MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog Quote: How many companies push words on a paper and crank

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