The following is the original version of a shorter post originally published on GPO’s Government BookTalk blog on October 11, 2011. On October 5, 2011, we lost one of America’s great geniuses of innovation, Apple’s founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. From the beginning, Steve Jobs seemed to “Think Different” than everyone else, which made Apple’sRead… Read more »
Learning is Doing. It’s not just cracking the books, it’s making something new. Making new makes learning stick. Research and study are tools to get to the doing part. Learning conductors do a better job when they conduct from concept to completion. Shipping provides lessons that are not to be missed, that retroactively change understandingRead… Read more »
One of the hardest roles anyone has in a corporation today is that of leadership. Like Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg, I separate leadership from management. Leadership suggests strategy and change, while management focuses on operational excellence –doing what others are doing , may be a little better—think best practices. What brought upon the insightsRead… Read more »
Taking notes at ACT/IAC ELC from panel “Innovation Happens!” Job as CTO is to find out what’s happening Energy Summit -Search needed to solve business problem – like when Energy loans Coalera If we aren’t leveraging the work GSA is doing to bring vendor relations together at one, we are stovepiping it. GSA is under-utlizedRead… Read more »
I’m at ACT/IAC Executive Leadership Council where 800 gov’t IT leaders are congregating. Keynote is entitled “The Dog That Caught The Bus” by Martha Johnson, GSA Administrator GSA’s mission is everything for everyone everywhere. To federal, state, local, executive, legislative branches. Change is happening-Previously – budgets were squeezed. We were put on a diet-Today ourRead… Read more »
Last week I started documenting the “what” with an eye towards the “how” I’ve used during past engagements. This post will not be the “how” but will list some of the methods I’ve assembled through the years that will eventually become the “how”. In the previous post I mentioned listing the forms and other artifactsRead… Read more »
Breakout is a good sign,but short-term question marks Stocks rallied strongly on Friday turning what looked like was going to be a negative week into another positive one. The action comes as we head into an important weekend for the Eurozone as they continue to put together a plan to try to tame the debtRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: The first Thursday of November is just around the corner, which means that another year has gone by and we are heading for another International Project Management Day (http://www.internationalpmday.org). Frank Saladis, PMP, is the founder of this day and we’ve had him on the program once orRead… Read more »
About a century ago –no I’m not that old—companies were using advance information management tools called paper, file folders and filing cabinets. Much of the daily course of business was concern with moving physical parts and products. The movement and storage of information was also a physical effort; paper and files were routed throughout theRead… Read more »
I was reading some old notes about why to celebrate failure, a slippery subject, maybe a mental game. Then I realized that if I don’t announce my failures, it’s harder to move on. Can’t have a breakthrough, without declaring a breakdown. Otherwise I spend all my focus grieving, hanging on to a mental closetful ofRead… Read more »