Category: Resources

Interviewing Excellence

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 serious thought to building the whole thing around interviewing skills. We weren’t quite brave enough to do it, but we probably should have.

Interviewing Excellence

As promised, I spent several hours in London this past Saturday working on the “InterviewingExcellence31.” You’ll find it here.(ppt file) (FYI: I was in Copenhagen yesterday for HP … and will scoot off today to one of my favorite places … South Africa.)

REPEAT: No B.School teaches PresEx (Presentation Excellence (ppt file)) and IntEx (Interviewing Excellence).(ppt file) What a pity. (Or: How stupid!) [Tom Peters weblog]

Business Blogs: A Practical Guide is Now Available

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 topic and what their subjects had to say as well.

Business Blogs: A Practical Guide is Now Available. Yesterday, we announced the availability of our book, Business Blogs: A Practical Guide. Amanda Watlington and I have been working on this for the past eight months and it is great to see it out. As we said in the… [Portals and KM]

Tom Peters Wire Service launches

And it’s got an RSS feed here. So now we have that wonderful combination of insightful editorial filtering with a format the flows into my information space on my terms. While the dinosaurs at Syndicate try to figure out how to preserve their obsolete business models, Tom Peters and crowd are forging ahead.

TP Wire Service Launches. There’s something new from the tompeters.com team, and I think it’s COOL! Check out the TP Wire Service. We’ve… [The Tom Peters Weblog]

Mindjet recommends: Blogs on Information Visualization and Collaboration

Some pointers to an interesting set of blogs. I was immensely flattered to find McGee's Musings
on the list. More importantly, it offers some pointers to some blogs I
wasn't aware of. And it also shows off some of the interesting features
of MindManger.

Mindjet recommends: Blogs on Information Visualization and Collaboration.
This MindManager map contains hyperlinks to some of our favorite blogs
on information visualization, collaboration (and related fields) as
well as their RSS feeds. Download this map and make it your personal
blog/news feed dashboard.Download this Map [The Mindjet Blog]

Three great MindManager blogs

I've been doing mindmaps by hand for decades and I've been doing them
with MindManager for several years now. For me it was the first
software tool for mindmapping that came even close to the ease of doing
them by hand. These are all quality resources for anyone using mindmaps
as part of their knowledge work toolkit.

Three great MindManager blogs.
If you want to learn more about the many
things that you can do with MindManager, my favorite visual mapping tool,
be sure to add these three people to your RSS reader.

Mike
Jetter – MindJet's CTO

Hobie
Swan – has a terrific post
about using
MindManager on the TabletPC
Nick
Duffill – Co-author of ResultsManager
add-in for MindManager…
[Eric Mack On-Line]

Safecracking and security

This has been lurking in my aggregator since earlier in the year.
Fascinating analysis and yet another example that “security by
obscurity” strategies are, at best, a very high-risk strategy.

Safecracking. Matt Blaze has written an excellent paper: “Safecracking for the computer scientist.” It has completely pissed off
the locksmithing community. There is a reasonable debate to be had
about secrecy versus full disclosure, but a lot of these comments
are… [Schneier on Security]

Some Knowledge Management Blogs from Bill Ives

A nice list of blogs that deal with KM topics from Bill Ives. I'm
flattered that Bill chose to include mine among the list. You should
definitely check out the rest of the list as well.

Some Knowledge Management Blogs.
When I was at Braintrust 2005 last week, someone asked me about good
blogs to read. Since it was a knowledge management conference I put
together the list of 17 below. Eight are cases in our own business blog
book… [Portals and KM]

The Ultimate Boot CD

Something I need to put together for myself.

The Ultimate Boot CD. And yes, they mean it:

UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which
contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost
any computer. All software included in UBCD4Win
are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© which is
how the CD boots into a Windows® environment with network support.
Perfect for recovering deleted files on your harddrive without
accidentally overwriting them or scanning a virus infected system. This
project currently has 50+ utilities included in the download.
Anti-Virus, CMOS password recovery, password finders, file recovery,
Networking tools, CD burning software, MBR backup and recovery, etc.
types of applications are all included in the download. Please visit
the “List of Tools” page for a complete list of what is included in the
project.