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Power to the People
I’m starting my next MBA course tonight – “Performance Management”. Something about people being the most important part of the organization…something, something….human capital…something, competitive...
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
I find motivation to be an interesting topic. What motivates me, may not motivate you and vice versa. That’s interesting; well to me at least (I don’t get out that much). I feel a post about motivation...
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A few words on Performance Management
As I noted in an earlier post, the MBA course I’m currently taking is on Performance Management. Now that I’m a couple of classes in, with some great class discussions having taken place on the...
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Top 5 Reasons Why “The Customer Is Always Right” Is Wrong
I stumbled onto this blog post, (a bit of an oldie) from a reference in a book I’m reading that I thought was just too interesting and thought provoking to not share. (Who doesn’t like a bit of food...
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Why Projects Fail
I’m sure you have all seen these types of lists on various websites or in your twitter feed (or maybe you haven’t because you subscribe to more interesting types of content than I do), because there...
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True Growth 2.0 ‘Civic Hackathon’
Back in June, I was involved with organizing a Hackathon, the 2nd in the ‘Inspiring Innovation through Hackathons’ series I’ve been leading with Enterprise Saint John. (See an earlier post for a recap...
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The Many Shapes of Project Management
If you’re at all familiar with Project Management, be it in an IT context or otherwise, or have the great fortune to have a Project Manager in your family or circle of friends, you may have heard of...
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I Have the Power!
In 1959 a couple of psychologists (French and Raven, 1959), published a study on ‘The Bases of Social Power’. It looked at the relationship between power/influence and leadership, defining various...
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Broken Windows. Software. Process and Disorder.
Studies in the fields of criminology and urban decay have repeatedly found an interesting trigger mechanism – one that turns a clean and intact building, into a smashed and abandoned one. Care to...
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Project Managers are from Jupiter
The idea that ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’ has been well documented. A lesser known astrological fact that you may not be aware of however, is that Project Managers (regardless of...
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Please Stand-by to be Processed
Let’s begin with a quote from Alistair Cockburn, one of the initiators of the Agile movement in software development. ‘While a good process can’t assure delivery, and a good team can deliver despite...
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