November 2009 Archives

How Smart Leaders Talk About Time is a "Conversation Starter" from HarvardBusiness.org in October. It talks about the the struggle so many businesses have of having too many things to do and prioritizing amongst them. What is a leader to do?

Atle Iversen has a series of posts on what he is calling Knowledge Management 3.0. I agree with everything he says, other than that he's created a new designation to call this 3.0.

Matt Homann posted a list of Ten Rules of Law Firm Retreats, but I think these are equally applicable to just about any time you take people off to discuss how things are going in the business or how to improve the business.

Charles Green has a great piece on collaboration and why we don't. He suggests it's all down to fear. I wonder if we know less about collaboration than we think.

Mark Gould has a discussion of "best practice" that reminds me just how important it is to have a regular policy of looking for other examples of how something has been done before doing it myself.

I have been reading Lilia Efimova's PhD thesis, and the second half is as good as the first. And just as familiar for long-time readers of her blog.

How in the world do you get MS Project to show you the calendar-day duration of a task when the "working calendar" of the project is a 5-day work week (or a two-shift, 5-day week; or a three-shift, 7-day week)?

There are always more good ideas than we have resources to execute those ideas. Dennis Stevens has a look at this from the Agile perspective that inspires my thoughts here.

It's hard to be actively involved in the online world and thinking about how it affects your life and those around you and not know about Seth Godin. Here is an interview with him that makes some connection to how people should operate their lives in today's world.