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
A few months ago I wrote a post titled Cognitive Dissonance & IT. From that post, you'll remember that cognitive dissonance is: an uncomfortable
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Consumerization of IT By Zack Urlocker on GigaOm Quote: In a recent presentation, Lew Cirne, CEO of application performance management vendor New
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
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
Late last week I received The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition by Scott Eblin (amazon affiliate link) from Daniel
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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