Last week I found a number of share worthy sites: On Practically Efficient I found a great post call “Get Your Priorities Straight” that explains way priorities are better than due dates and how to manage priorities. Time Management Ninja explained “10 Things Wrong With Your Todo List” Affiliate Marketing Blog explains the “7 R’s [...]
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In a recent CIO.com article entitled “Why IT Leaders Shouldn’t Cut Staff” the Denise Dubie discussed the impact of loosing embedded knowledge and skill. While I agree with Denise that this is a significant risk I also believe that CIO and other IT executives need to be creative in trying times express the [...]
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Today Seth Godin published a post that considers first mover advantage and while it is an old concept he makes an interesting distinction by using the term “first competent mover.” It is important to keep in mind that first movers only maintain advantage if they are competent and will willing to retain the advantage. [...]
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Image via Wikipedia In a recent survey of technology workers that allowed 330 respondents to choose their four most critical tools to ensure productivity from a list of eight: Laptop Desktop PC VPN access Mobile Phone Blackberry Desk Phone Video Conferencing Assigned desk The results were interesting because the priorities were listed as: Laptop (88%) [...]
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The Myth of Multitasking by Dave Crenshaw is a quick read that I was able to complete in a little more than an hour commuter flight. While I found the premise interesting I found that it was a bit light on content and certainly not worth the price I paid for the book. Essentially [...]
In a recent blog post by Michael S. Hyatt, the President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing, he covered the topic of “Creating a Sense of Urgency”. He asserts that large companies have a hard time recognizing the need for change because they become complacent; there isn’t enough at stake until it’s too late. He [...]
I recently completed a book called Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner that provided a balanced view of the issues around Agile and Plan-Driven project methodologies. It was especially refreshing to get beyond the “holy wars” surrounding each approach and see the authors take an extremely [...]
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