Archive for March, 2009

Four Tough Questions On Your Leadership, Process, and Tools

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Just saying you have an open door doesn’t make it so. How do you get your people to tell you what you may not even know to ask?

How Kids Learn to Create and Store Models for Future Use

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Our new understanding of brain development can helps us better discern the child’s natural cognitive and behavioral inclinations, and therefore how to harmonize their emotions, logical models.

Top 50 Downloads, Guaranteed Performers

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Web’s Best 50 Free Downloads – Features – PC Authority
“…top 50 downloads – from apps that are measured in kilobytes to the Google Pack’s 200MB – all of which are guaranteed performers. We’ve covered a wide range of applications, including everything from browser add-ons, security software, music packages right through to Photoshop alternatives.”

Further thoughts: #1 [...]

The Latest, Greatest PMIBOK: Five Good Changes. And Three That Missed the Bus.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The PMI in 2008 finished overhauling its  four standards (PMBOK, Program, Portfolio, and OPM3).  I took the key thrusts, and referred to the 2002 Koskela and Howell critique for context.  Below are the five positive standouts:
1. Candor on the need for continuing work to make PMI-BOK more relevant and actually used.
2. Five-point criteria : time, scope, cost, [...]

The analyst’s acuity. A humorist’s irony. Hearing the silence between the notes. Seeing both object and space, in minimalist and in Japanese art. Holding to the values beyond conflicting goals; reaching for the larger frame beyond the crisis. Spotting the patterns, navigating the chaos. How to think, how to manage.

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