Ben called at 12:30 Monday. “Do you ever have trouble getting started on a Monday?” I said I knew organizations that had trouble getting started for whole months. One of my favorite solutions is the Meeting Poster. But what do you do if you’re not faking it in middle management and have to produce someRead… Read more »
or… What a fantasy author has to teach the public service. The family went down to New York for the latter part of last week and the weekend. My wife had a table at the New York City Comic Con. It so happened that, while we were there, Terry Pratchett was, too. He was atRead… Read more »
In the newest season of NBC’s The Office, Andy Bernard – self-admittedly the worst paper salesman at Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton branch – has been promoted to office manager. As a fan of the show, his unorthodox management style is pretty hilarious. To motivate the crew and impress his superiors, Andy recently promised the employees that theyRead… Read more »
Going back through my posts this evening. Found that I didn’t post the Information Management/Taxonomy reading list I had stated I would. Here it is in no particular order: Quality Information and Knowledge, Huang, et al Data Smog, Shenk Everything is Miscellaneous, Weinberger The Accidental Taxonomist, Hedden Information Architecture, Wodtke Organizing Knowledge, Lambe Finding theRead… Read more »
Halelly Azulay, author, former president of DC-ASTD and president of TalentGrow, has some great advice about supervisory self-development and informal learning. Read her new post here. Do you have comments or questions for her?
Stocks rallied strongly last week as the Dow gained 543-points, following through on the relentless rebound off of the early October low. The news of bailouts in Europe helped propel the rally, ironically at a time when there is a world-wide cry out against such big bank and Wall Street bailouts. It was a bigRead… Read more »
In Google’s Q3 earnings call, they released that there are 190M Android Devices Worldwide. Google’s mobile revenue is now up to $2.5B over the past 12 months. They are adding over 575K users a day, an incredible rate of adoption. The Motorola purchase, which was seen as Google’s first foray into device manufacture, has beenRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Department of Labor Lauches Stats App. The Department of Labor has released a new application for iPhones and Android devices that gives users the most-up-to-date information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). App Helps Government Deploy Labor. Jason Hibbets interviews SeeClickFix CEO Ben Berkowitz aboutRead… Read more »
Spent last night working on designing the next components to ITIL solution using SharePoint my team has fielded as a Federal Department. The first module tracked service requests from a catalog of service. These services are higher level than the MOF services than the Microsoft System Center tracks and reports. I had previously passed alongRead… Read more »
Guest post by Mike Clayton Why Every Project Manager needs to Understand Risk Project management is a discipline born from necessity. If projects were not so challenging, we wouldn’t need a separate toolkit and processes. But we do need them, because when we try to create change under constraints like schedule, performance and budget, weRead… Read more »