LEADING GEEK-STYLE: When Being a Genius Isn’t Enough
When a colleague recently asked me what it was like to work with an IT giant client of ours on […]
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Change
Sustainability – Change is in the Air
“Nature is not an option, not a luxury. Nature is the underpinning that keeps us alive. We have to do
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Working on a Sustainable Future
I feel like I spent the last 6 months in a dungeon. Outside of consulting just enough to pay my
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How can a career vision help me with my career
Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.
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What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals.
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How to do things that scare us.
There are things in our professional careers that naturally scare us, but are required for advancement and continued growth. We are normally afraid of places we haven’t been before, things we haven’t tried before or subject matter that we know nothing about. If fear is a sign that we are pushing our envelop, then conquering that fear is a sign of real personal and professional growth.
So, how do we gather enough courage to take that next step?
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Do one scary thing a day.
This week we will take a short-cut into slapping ourselves back on the path. We won’t spend time investigating why and what took us off our course. Instead, we will jump into action with the idea of “doing one scary thing a day” to help keep up moving forward at a faster pace.
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Remote Pair Programming
I’ve been enamored of remote pair programming since briefly leading development at Socialtext, where no three developers were in the
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Prescription for Project Success
Today I am at the Project Management Institute (PMI) Community of Practice (Cop) leadership event in San Diego, California. I
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OPM and Agile; Conflicting Frameworks or Complementary Approaches?
Everyone in development knows about Agile. However, Organizational Project Management (OPM) is still relatively unheard of. Simply stated; OPM focuses
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Not another meeting!!
In keeping with the topic of back to the basics, lets talk about Communication. In my previous post I mentioned
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