When fully understanding the problem is a “bad thing”.
Raleigh has many lovely parks and lakes in the area. One such lovely and convenient lake is Shelly Lake at […]
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Leadership
Interrupting is a two way street.
Everyone has complained about being interrupted. People have interrupted our conversations, our tasks, even physically (i.e. being cut in line, in traffic, beepers, texting, instance messaging).
On the other hand, everyone has interrupted. Everyone does it. Find out why, and how to manage around it.
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“Just say ‘No’” isn’t as simple as it seems.
Undoubted you’ve heard the advice “Just Say No” to things when you’re feeling overwhelmed. In actuality, saying “no” to life and its opportunities is a resistive, defensive and negative attitude producing additional stress. This stress management presentation shares fun, practical and life-changing tips on ways to say “YES” to things — on your own terms.
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Totally Commit to Finding a Way
Scrappy Project Management Mindset Series – Part 4 of 4. If you’re going to lead projects to success you’ve gotta
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Confront the Brutal Facts
Scrappy Project Management Mindset Series – Part 3 of 4. If you’re going to lead projects to success you’ve gotta
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Pretend You’re Totally Responsible
Scrappy Project Management Mindset Series – Part 2 of 4. If you’re going to lead projects to success you’ve gotta have
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Say “No!” to the Power of Cynicism
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Nine things you can do to get what you need from technologists
Business managers often find themselves bamboozled by technologists and their managers. After spending a lot of money on IT or Engineering, they still don’t have what they want. Here are nine ways a business manager can ask questions to improve relations with the technologists.
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Why should we be Agile or Lean?
There is a lot of skepticism about Agile and Lean among business managers for a lot of good reasons. It’s best that we understand these reasons, because they shouldn’t keep us from proceeding with Agile and Lean transformations of our companies and projects.
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5). Thai..ke Thyme: Keeping the Carrot in mind!
From my earlier blogs you will know that tuk-tuks and I were not necessarily on the same page, book or
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4). Thai..ke Thyme: What is your work ethic?
From my earlier blogs you will remember that we were in Bangkok and that I hadn’t had great success with
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