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Andrew Buck over at the Project Hut has a post today on Meeting Behaviors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
It’s a good post, but it oversimplifies in a few areas. More specifically, it falls into the trap of “all meetings have the same purpose.”
Ain’t true.
Buck’s comments are dead on for many meetings, but there’s [...]
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Tom Peters (a/k/a TomPeters!) has a terrific post today about building great first-line managers. I won’t repeat all 20 points here, but I want to call out a few specifically because they are so often overlooked in lists of this sort:
5. New 1LMs should “shadow” senior 1LMs for a significant period of time. (“1LM” is [...]
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Two weeks later and I’m still trying to puzzle out The Who’s flaccid performance at the Super Bowl.
It’s no wonder they didn’t play their first hit, My Generation, with it’s tagline, “Hope I die before I get old.” I didn’t expect them to play it… but I didn’t expect them to get seriously old, either.
“Things [...]
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Here are two humorous views of the future-is-now.
Is the world full of amazing things?
Or did it come up short? Check out David Wilcox’s Modern World:
This ain’t the modern world that I remember
The one they promised all us boys and girls
This ain’t the vision that the artist rendered
What happened to my modern world?
My leisure time [...]
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A former colleague of mine wrote me the other day:
I knew you had more than a passing interest in outsourcing. Maybe you can come up with a solution for the problem outsourcing companies in India are facing. You may know that majority of the income for outsourcing companies comes from engineering of end [...]