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
I've recently decided to stop calling myself a Project Manager and start calling myself a Manager of Projects.There is a difference as I hope you will see
Of course :) My blog post titled "The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking" made it into this week's Carnival of the Capitalists, which was hosted by David
In my post titled "Earned Value Management - The next "buzzword" I belittled Earned Value Management (EVM)...and now its time to eat some crow, although
Brad Appleton has a great list of resources listed on his blog. The list, titled Lean Software Development Resources provides links to a ton of books,
The blog "Slow Leadership" recently had a good post about Building Trust. An excerpt from the article is: Trust is an essential basis for a productive,
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