Growth is a mindset
Growth is hard. It’s uncomfortable to dangle in the darkness of ideas you don’t fully understand, to fail at something …
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Learning
Motivating (and not de-motivating) Programmers
One of the great “aha”s for me as a manager was realizing that motivating people – and not de-motivating them …
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Practicing Project Management
Athletes, musicians, and artists regard practice as a “must do”, so why don’t business leaders and project managers? Malcolm Gladwell’s …
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From Mentor to Colleague
Some mentoring relationships last a single meeting, but others last a lifetime. Sometimes a mentoring relationship will turn into a long term relationship. (No, I don’t mean that you sleep with your mentor, or marry them.) I mean that they will come to value and enjoy the mentoring relationship as much as you do. This has happened in several of my mentoring relationships. Because we enjoyed our mentoring sessions so much we continued them beyond the point where I was seeking advice and guidance from them. Eventually they started to ask me for advice.
Leadership Lessons From a Kindergarten Play
This week was my youngest son’s first school play. He was Pig #2 in a version of The Three Little …
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Gap Analysis – Where are you now?
Image via Wikipedia To take Wikipedia’s definition, a gap analysis is a business assessment tool enabling a company to compare …
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Self-induced Insanity
More self-inflicted project wounds . . . Some project managers seem to think that projects should proceed in a sensible …
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