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Tyler Durden on Innovation

Do you know who Tyler Durden is? (hint: Brad Pitt played him in Fight Club). Lateral Action posted Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation recently (hat tip

Oct 15, 2008 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

PMI IT Special Interest Group Newsletter

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

Oct 14, 2008 · 1 min read
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Innovation

Big ideas vs Little ideas

Would you rather have one great big idea or tons of little ideas? Me?  I'm fond of having a lot of little ideas. Why?  Little ideas are easier to

Oct 13, 2008 · 3 min read
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Leadership

Are you looking after your employees?

wanted to follow up my post titled "In a downturn, people are vital" with a few more thoughts on the subject. In that post, I said that "employees are

Oct 8, 2008 · 3 min read
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Human Resources

The Role of the CIO: Mentor

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled "Power from Your People" written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson &

Oct 6, 2008 · 1 min read
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Blog

In a downturn, people are vital

Management Issues had an article on Sept 25 titled "Looking after talent is vital in a downturn" that gave me hope when I saw the title. The article

Sep 30, 2008 · 2 min read
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Book Reviews

Think Better

The last book from my 'vacation reading list" is Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking by Tim Hurson. Some of you may remember a brief

Sep 26, 2008 · 3 min read
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Blog

Integrity

W. Clement Stone said: “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys

Sep 24, 2008 · 3 min read
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Blog

I'm infamous

I'm quoted in the local newspaper regarding a local City Councilman and ex-teacher who bought a 'degree' from a diploma mill.

Sep 19, 2008 · 1 min read
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Book Reviews

Super Crunchers

I picked up Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart by Ian Ayres while on vacation...it looked like an interesting read...and

Sep 19, 2008 · 2 min read
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Blog

US Workers losing faith in Senior Leadership?

Management Issues (MI) reported today on a survey by Careerbuilder.com that says that many US workers are losing faith in their senior leaders.  MI

Sep 17, 2008 · 2 min read
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Blog

The Rise of the Creative Class

This book was recommended to me by an acquaintance a few weeks ago...I'm glad they mentioned it.  I grabbed this book to read while spending last week on

Sep 15, 2008 · 3 min read
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Blog

I'm #86!

Not everyone can be #1! :) Just a quick note that my little ol' blog made it in the top 100 on Noop.NL's list of Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers

Sep 14, 2008 · 1 min read
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Travel

Last day on the beach

Well folks....Friday Sept 12 was my last day on the beach.  We fly back to Dallas in the morning...hopefully we get in before Ike hits town. Here is one

Sep 12, 2008 · 1 min read
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Travel

Pictures from Wilmington

We made it to Wilmington NC on Sat Sept 6th and found that our condo had no electricity. Due to the timing, we stayed in the condo Saturday evening but

Sep 10, 2008 · 1 min read

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