Honest thinking about technology decisions.

I was asked by a former professor to write a review of Peter Drucker's "They're not employees; they're people" article to provide as an example to his

Do you ever take a break, step back and look at the world from your client's viewpoint? I suspect that many successful consultants do but I sometimes

As a follow-up to my post titled "The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking", I had the intention of writing a post to share some thoughts on Critical &

Question: Want to know one of my pet peeves (hint: re-read the title of this post)? Answer: Linear Thinking (Books on Linear Thinking). What is linear

I'm not a big fan of pushing 3rd party products and/or services on this blog but I feel like I need to do this. 800-CEO-READ is a website dedicated to

Everyone wants to work with the ideal client, but how many consultants and entrepreneurs out there can afford the luxury of holding out for this mythical

Still continuing my reading on Agile Project Management and ran across W. Edward Deming's famous "Fourteen Principles of Management" again (for the

Spent some time today reading over some Agile Project Management blogs and articles and found the Agile Manifesto. The "Principles behind the Agile

A great post over on PMThink! titled "Leadership Practices: Sound Advice" that is worth sharing. The post discusses a recent article in CIO Magazine

I was researching the term "servant leader" today and ran across a few quotes from Robert Greenleaf, the man credited with coining that phrase. The quote

Erik Mazzone posted a thoughtful question in his post titled "A Question". An excerpt: What is the one most important conversation that you have not had

The Jan 15 2007 BusinessWeek Magazine has an article about Bob Nardelli's ouster at Home Depot (another good article about his ouster is at the New York

During my usual Sunday evening read through my favorite blogs, I read an interesting post at the Brazen Careerist titled "How to build buzz around

Until reading Jerry Manas' white paper titled "Service Oriented Project Management" (SOPM) I had never heard this term before (have I been hiding under a

Management Issues has an interesting article about the apparent decline of trust that employees have in management. The article, titled "Fewer than half