In my 25 year career, I have led and been a part more projects than I can honestly count in just about every shape, size, scope, and dollar amount. The largest project I ever led personally was a 4 billion dollar project that spanned 2.5 years. I’ve also seen great, well-led projects and poorly-led, rope-a-dope […]
In a previous post, Why we Need a Holiday From Our Screens, I talk about what we gain when we consciously turn our screens off, including a number of alternatives to spending time on our screens. But what happens when the unthinkable happens – when our mobile device has no service or battery life, and […]
There is a direct relationship between the amount of cooperation you have in an organization and the number of resources you need. Specifically, the more cooperation you have, the less resources you need. The inverse is also true, the less cooperation you have the more resources are consumed on organizational structures, processes, systems, and governance that all exist to compensate for the lack of cooperation.
I’m a huge fan of productivity, but I’m an even bigger fan of giving yourself rewards when you’ve really earned them like overcoming procrastination and taking action on something you’ve been putting off. What follows is a list of ideas to reward yourself in a healthy, fun, and sustainable way. Admittedly, these are small rewards […]
One of my observations of our current society is that we have lost the sense of thick skin that I feel we used to have. There is such a heightened sense of political correctness and hypersensitivity, that we have created “safe spaces” and have new labels like “micro-aggression” to insulate us from what someone would […]
If you want balance you have to fight for it yourself. It’s a lonely battle, because no one is going to give it to you, and no one is going to help you. If anything, they’re trying to take it away.
Have you ever felt the “Sunday Night Dread”? The “Sunday Night Dread” is a phrase I coined to express the feeling you get every Sunday night before going into work on Monday morning. It’s that feeling of not looking forward to what you’re going to face the next day. You’re not looking forward to facing […]
