Control – the Illusion
Know any control-freaks?
For many of them, control is an illusion. Paradoxically, by grasping for more control, they often get less.
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Leadership
Politics or influence?
The ability to influence people is a good skill for a project manager. Isn’t it?
Isn’t it our job as PMs to influence people on the project? To find ways to get our stakeholders onboard?
Could it be that one person’s influencing can be another’s political manipulation?
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Teams? Why not just have a meeting?
Teams. It seems like such an obvious part of project life. Or, is it? Recently, I’ve been noticing some things
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Commitment – Inspiration that Never Fails
Inspiration is important, but we can’t depend on it showing up when needed. It comes and goes, like a ferral
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Money Doesn’t Inspire
Some people in the corporate world still believe that people work for money. But with a growing number of examples
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The Politics of Inspiration and Shame
As a project leader, part of your job is to inspire people to persevere in pursuit of seemingly impossible goals.
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Lessons in Being Proactive
Once again as an Incognito Project Manager, here are some observations on the Power of being Proactive… Prior to
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Lessons from an Incognito Project Manager
I recently changed hats from project team-builder to project team member. As the e-learning course developer on the team, it
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Wrap Up
I believe that most people in the computer-using community (which now is just about everybody in the developed nations) want to do the right thing, and can do the right thing. They just need to know what the right things are, and how to do them.
Technical Security Controls
There is a lot to talk about with regard to technical security controls, aka the “sexy stuff” like firewalls and IDS. So rather than bore you with technobabble (in Scrappy Information Security, I start with packets, headers, ports & MACs as a way of introducing how the Internet works), I will instead focus on an explanation of encryption.
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InfoSec 101
When teaching “InfoSec 101,” I reflect back on my early career as a reporter, and focus on answering the standard questions: who, what, why, where, when, and how. Since this is a Scrappy Book, let’s throw caution to the wind and take them out of order…