A typically succinct and insight filled summary of how to think about, prepare for, and conduct fact-finding interviews from Tom Peters. Reading it won’t take long; learning to do it will take a good chunk of the rest of your career. Years ago, when I was designing the basic consulting curriculum for DiamondCluster, we gave [...]
This made me grin at least. At the same time, if you get better and faster at recognizing your mistakes, that alone can help improve performance. I remember talking to my instructor a few years back as I switched from skiing to snowboarding. Her observation about both sports was that you could think of them [...]
At the odd intersection of a powerful and popular idea, the blogosphere, and today’s intellectual property environment, David Allen is now offering a “official” definition of his Getting Things Done approach. I understand what drives him to follow this approach, regret it as a symptom of an IP-environment losing connection with reality, and still endorse [...]
Shortly after last December’s tsunami, Dina Mehta and a group of fellow bloggers began what started as a blog (The South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog), grew into a wiki, and became an important experiment and case example of the power of new technologies to support and amplify bottoms-up organizational invention. She’s now written [...]
Rob Patterson is absolutely right, this is easily one of the best articles on change that’s shown up in a long time. Why it’s hard, why most conventional approaches are unlikely to work, and why efforts that appear doomed actually worked. I expect to be re-reading and recommending this one for a while. Change or [...]
Jack Vinson provides a nice summary of what I had to say last week about personal knowledge management in his class on knowledge management. It’s a notion that I am continuing to explore. Another cut at finding an answer to the question that I find intriguing in my newest column at Enterprise Systems Journal. I [...]
Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington have released their study of business blogging. I was one of the many bloggers Bill interviewed and if the insight and cogency of his questions are any guide, this is going to be well worth your time. I’m certainly looking forward to learning what they have to say about the [...]
I’ve had reason to appreciate this sentiment far too many times in faculty meetings, partner meetings, and other settings where ego and brains fight for dominance. Worth remembering. Thank you Espen. Generic meeting summary. I think this goes for most meetings: “[...] a [...] faculty meeting is not over when everything has been said, it [...]
I’ll be at Princeton next weekend celebrating my 30th Reunion. I’ll be coming in on Friday morning. I’m planning on seeing the Triangle Show on Saturday night, otherwise I’ll be wandering the campus like the rest of the graying alums. If any of this means anything to you feel free to leave a comment. If [...]
Congratulations to Jack on his 2nd blogversary. I can remember encouraging him to star his blog based on the cogent emails and comments I would get from him in response to my postings. We all won by getting him to share his insights. Tonight, I’ll be a guest lecturer in Jack’s classs. I’ll be talking [...]
