January 2009 Archives

WissensWert is running a blog carnival on personal effectiveness as it relates to Web 2.0 tools.

Shawn Callahan posted the Anecdote Collaboration framework back in November 2008, and I have been pondering it since. He's been thinking and talking on the topic for a while.

I've been getting a bunch of questions lately along these lines: What's all this about a new job, then? Yes, it is true. I am leaving AspenTech to work with two former Searle / Pharmacia / Pfizer colleagues as a member of P3 Consulting Group.

Brian Tracy has a post on Practicing Solid Time Management in this month's AMA Leaders Edge newsletter. I see a lot of connection to solid project management.

Yesterday, in my outline of the Now and into the Future seminar, I mentioned Lisa Schienkopf's "five questions." I didn't have them then, but a question to the Constraints Management SIG gave me the answer (thanks guys).

What is Theory of Constraints? Goldratt Group published a video of Eli Goldratt with this title. Does it meet its title?

Valdis Krebs has another news-related network analysis in "Power in Economic Networks." This time, covering the European natural gas network, which is dominated by Russia.

Margaret Attwood's op-ed piece from the NY Times (21 October 2008) is an interesting item about what debt and credit mean to the people involved.

Entertaining, short video on work life in the "future."